Register now for the Food Waste Action Week Partner Event - Thursday 21st March
11 Mar 2024
Selling more fresh, uncut fruit and veg loose is a key area of work for WRAP both in terms of reducing plastic packaging but also the potential to reduce food waste by enabling people to buy only what they need.
Food Waste Action Week 2024 will focus its attention on raising awareness amongst citizens of the benefits of buying loose fruit and vegetables and will motivate them to act by buying loose where they can.
As part of the week’s activities, WRAP is hosting an online Partner Event on Thursday 21 March 2024 to bring together key stakeholders to focus on household food waste prevention in the UK.
There’s something for everyone. Whether you work for a grower, supplier, retailer or manufacturer, a local or national government or a charity or NGO, there’ll be plenty to learn and help you in your quest to tackle household food waste:
- Join WRAP experts to find out why tackling household food waste is so critical if we’re to achieve the Courtauld Commitment target of meeting SDG12.3 and identify where your organisation, and you personally, can have real impact.
- Listen to NEW insights and research from WRAP's citizen food waste tracker, Sustainable Lifestyle Segmentation and “Unpacking uncut fresh fruit and veg: A UK Behavioural Insights Study” to learn more about how you can better engage your customers and communities on buying loose, to help reduce household food waste;
- Find out more about how we’ve developed Food Waste Action Week using our latest research and insights to raise citizen awareness around the benefits of buying fresh produce loose;
- Join industry leaders who will be demonstrating what supermarkets are doing to tackle the barriers to selling loose fruit and vegetables in store;
- Join a panel discussion on household food waste with industry, government, academia and NGO panellists, from the UK and internationally. Learn what the motivations to act on it for different organisations are, what more needs to be done and how can we all take more responsibility and action.
- With the roll-out of household food waste recycling on the horizon, there’s an opportunity to use this change not only to divert food waste away from residual bins, but to also reduce the overall amount of food wasted. During our afternoon session we’ll showcase recent research findings, alongside our exploration of how messaging and communications can be linked/ combined to influence both food waste recycling and food waste prevention.
There are five sessions available – see details and Eventbrite links to register below.
Time | Session/Eventbrite Link | Speakers | Details |
10:30 | Welcome + Household Food Waste - why it's important and how we can achieve it | Sebastian Munden, Chair, WRAP Tom Quested, Interim Strategic Technical Manager – Food, WRAP | Join Sebastian for the introduction to the event. This session will go through data, insights and evidence on the issue, helping us to understand why we need to tackle household food waste, why a wide range of stakeholders (people, industry and government) have an important role in preventing it, and how we can achieve a future in which our homes waste less food. |
11:05 | Mark Roberts, Senior Analyst, WRAP Jackie Bailey, Senior Campaign Manager, WRAP | This session will share the most recent WRAP research relating to citizen behaviours around buying loose fruit and vegetables. We will then go into more detail on how we use this research and insights to shape our citizen-facing campaigns, such as Food Waste Action Week. | |
12:15 | What supermarkets are doing to tackle the barriers to selling loose fruit and vegetables in store. | Chaired by: Caroline Conroy – Senior Specialist - Household Food Waste Prevention WRAP With: Catherine Loader, Sustainability Specialist - Circular Economy, Waitrose Leona Fox, Operations Manager, Sainsbury's Ian Critchley, Business Unit Manager, Avery Berkel | In this session we will hear from industry on what is happening within retail to address some of the barriers to selling loose, including tackling some operational challenges as well as the intention/action gap with consumers and driving sales of loose fresh produce when it’s available. Exclusive invite-only session for Courtauld 2030 and The UK Plastics Pact signatories. |
13:15 | Chaired by: Sebastian Munden, Chair, WRAP With: Christian Reynolds, Reader in Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London Helen Taylor, Marketing Sustainability Manager, Arla Elaine Fiore, Founder, Food Conservation Alliance Andrew Jenkins, Waste Prevention Team Leader, Buckinghamshire County Council Ben Thomas, Senior Environment Manager, Ethics & Sustainability, John Lewis Partnership | Join this session hosted by Sebastian Munden (chair of WRAP’s board) for a discussion with panellists from industry, government, academia and NGOs, from the UK and internationally, on household food waste. Learn what the motivations to act on it for different organisations are, what more needs to be done and how can we all take more responsibility and action. Exclusive invite-only session for Courtauld 2030 and The UK Plastics Pact signatories. | |
14:30 | How the introduction of food waste recycling in England can help drive down food waste | Chaired by: Bettina Gilbert, Head of Technical Support and Financial Mechanisms, WRAP With: Tom Quested, Interim Strategic Technical Manager – Food, WRAP Sian Morgan, Associate Specialist, WRAP Cymru Jamie Fleming, Communications Partner, Zero Waste Scotland Followed by: Harriet Lamb, CEO, WRAP who will close the event. | With the roll-out of household food waste recycling on the horizon, this gives us the opportunity to use this change not only to divert food waste away from residual bins, but to also reduce the overall amount of food wasted. This session will showcase recent research findings, alongside our exploration of how messaging and communications can be linked/ combined to influence both food waste recycling and food waste prevention. |
Event webpage: https://wrap.org.uk/FWAW24-Partner-Event
If you have any questions regarding the event, please do get in touch: LFHW@wrap.org.uk