Thank you for contacting me about food waste.
Like you, I do not want to see good food go to waste - it harms our environment, it is bad for business and it is morally indefensible. At the household level, ministers are tackling food waste through supporting campaigns such as Love Food, Hate Waste and Wasting Food: It’s Out of Date as well as the UK’s first Food Waste Action Week which was held in March 2021. The Government also supports the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and its work with retailers and other food businesses who play a key role in influencing household food waste through interventions such as pack sizing and labelling. These measures all help consumers to buy what they need and use what they buy.
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