Ask your MP to end food waste for good
Second reading of the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill now on March 4th 2016 after running out of time in January.
The UK bins 15 million tonnes of edible food each year.
The Food Waste (Reduction) Bill was proposed by Kerry McCarthy MP. It has support from politicians across all the main political parties, and other organisations including FareShare, WWF-UK and Friends of the Earth. The Bill:
- Requires large supermarkets and manufacturers to reduce their food waste by 30% by 2025
- Targets the huge waste generated by supermarkets further up their supply chains, by requiring large supermarkets and manufacturers to report on levels of food waste across their supply chain
- Requires supermarkets to donate unsold food to prevent edible food from being binned
- Reverses the current situation where it is cheaper to dispose of food nearing its use-by date through anaerobic digestion, rather than providing it for redistribution
The Bill was read for the first time in Parliament on September 9th 2015, and will be debated during it’s second reading, on March 4th 2016 (after running out of time on January 29th 2016).
But that doesn’t mean food waste is off the table.
The House of Lords will be debating food waste this week, and we’ll be looking out for our next opportunity to get the Government to take decisive action to bring this needless waste to an end.
While we wait, we can show them how it’s done. If you want to waste less food at home, and enjoy food that’s great for our health and our planet, take our Let’s Eat Better pledge.
Also, here’s a message from Kerry McCarthy MP, who created the Bill:
“Thanks so much to everyone who wrote to their MP asking them to support it. It has really helped to demonstrate the level of public support for ambitious action to end the scandal of wasted food. The campaign will go on.”
