National food waste initiatives

FareShare is the UK’s largest organisation that redistributes surplus food to charities and community groups, that then produce meals for vulnerable people. You can find out more about FareShare’s work here.

There are a number of initiatives and campaigns run by charities to tackle food waste across the UK.

• Love Food Hate Waste and Wasting Food: It’s Out of Date campaigns aim to reduce household waste.
• Feedback is a campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming the food system.
• Guardians of Grub is an initiative aimed at tackling waste in the hospitality sector.

All major supermarkets also have food waste initiatives, here is how you can find out more:

• Sainsburys
• Tesco
• M&S
• Asda
• Morrisons
• Co-op
• Aldi
• Lidl
• Waitrose