Food Waste
As a major food retailer, we are determined to do whatever we can to reduce food waste, right across the value chain.
We focus on three areas: reduction, redistribution and repurpose. We use a range of methods to keep waste from landfills, including: reuse/ repurpose /recycling; anaerobic digestion; incineration with energy recovery; donations to charities; re-sell/liquidation; animal food production, composting and thermal incineration.
- Household Food WasteWe continue to look at where we can help reduce customer waste, in 2022, we removed best before dates on almost 250 fresh fruit and vegetable products to help customers reduce food waste in the home and save money and in 2023 went further by changing the use by dates on over half of our own brand yoghurts to a best before date, to reduce edible yoghurt thrown away each year (by all retailers).
- Operational Food WasteBalancing product availability with minimising waste is a constant challenge impacted by extreme weather and changing customer demands.
- Supply Chain Food WasteIn any food supply chain, waste will occur through the production, processing, distribution and presentation of the food at the shelf edge. In 2022 we listened to our suppliers who asked for more options for redistributing surplus own label products and increased redistribution of surplus food by partnering with more charities across the UK.
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