The Felix Project, which is London’s largest food redistribution charity, is set to host a webinar looking at the upcoming mandatory food segregation legislation and how it could encourage businesses within the food industry to donate surplus to charity.
The event called Food Waste Matters: Get Ready For The New Food Waste Recycling Rules will take place online on Wednesday 19 March from 10:30am - 12:00noon, in the middle of Food Waste Action Week.
The webinar will feature several speakers including:
It will examine how the new legislation could increase the proportion of edible food waste that is redistributed to people. Currently only 1% of surplus food in the UK ends up being redistributed, a stat The Felix Project would like to see improve. Last year the charity worked with over 300 suppliers to rescue almost 16,000 tonnes of good quality surplus food, that would otherwise have gone to waste, and get it to 1,200 community organisations, such as food banks, primary schools and homeless shelters, to help feed those experiencing food insecurity.
WRAP will give tips on reducing food waste and take attendees through the new WRAP guidelines allowing increased flexibility of what items that can be safely re-distributed to people. Mustard Food and Amazon, both Felix suppliers, will be sharing their food recycling and redistribution experiences and explain why they think it’s important surplus produce should go to people in need.
Richard Smith, Head of Food Supply at The Felix Project says: “These new laws will mean food waste can no longer be thrown into general waste, so we hope this webinar will help all those in the food sector, such as wholesalers, manufacturers and caterers, to think about where their waste edible food ends up. We want to help them see how simple it is to give food to The Felix Project and help feed those in who are regularly struggling to afford food.” If you would like to find out more and sign up please click here.
It will examine how the new legislation could increase the proportion of edible food waste that is redistributed to people. Currently only 1% of surplus food in the UK ends up being redistributed, a stat The Felix Project would like to see improve. Last year the charity worked with over 300 suppliers to rescue almost 16,000 tonnes of good quality surplus food, that would otherwise have gone to waste, and get it to 1,200 community organisations, such as food banks, primary schools and homeless shelters, to help feed those experiencing food insecurity.
WRAP will give tips on reducing food waste and take attendees through the new WRAP guidelines allowing increased flexibility of what items that can be safely re-distributed to people. Mustard Food and Amazon, both Felix suppliers, will be sharing their food recycling and redistribution experiences and explain why they think it’s important surplus produce should go to people in need.
Richard Smith, Head of Food Supply at The Felix Project says: “These new laws will mean food waste can no longer be thrown into general waste, so we hope this webinar will help all those in the food sector, such as wholesalers, manufacturers and caterers, to think about where their waste edible food ends up. We want to help them see how simple it is to give food to The Felix Project and help feed those in who are regularly struggling to afford food.” If you would like to find out more and sign up please click here.
