Traditionally, retail has been the biggest supplier of recovered, edible surplus to the charity sector. But, at the same time as demand for food support grows, retail surplus has been reducing because grocery supply chains are improving. Could manufacturing be a new focus area for recovering surplus for the end-to-end supply chain?
Our research shows food and drink manufacturing can collectively make a significant contribution not only to reducing levels of food waste but also using the associated cost savings to help reduce food insecurity. UK retailers sell 18.5 million tonnes of UK manufactured food and drink each year. In the process of creating that food, we have found around 550k tonnes is wasted – equivalent to 3% of sales . There is the potential to:
Reduce 128k tonnes food waste
Recover 89k tonnes surplus to charities
Reinvest £326 million at lowest manufacturing price
Existing pipeline of food recovered by The Felix Project and FareShare
£326 million savings
212 million meals
657 million meals
148 million meals
= Over a billion meals 1,017 million meals
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