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To: UK Government
Reduce food waste in the UK
Impose targets on UK businesses to reduce food waste by 50% by 2020.
Why is this important?
In the UK alone we waste over 7 billion tonnes of food.
Most of which can be eaten and is perfectly fit for human consumption however many companies don’t do this due to: A the cost of processing and transporting this food to food banks, or B they won’t give it away for fear of legal repucussions.
I want to see a change in government policy that impose strict fines on companies that waste over proposed targets.
And promote and support companies giving away food to food banks and other charitable causes.
Most of which can be eaten and is perfectly fit for human consumption however many companies don’t do this due to: A the cost of processing and transporting this food to food banks, or B they won’t give it away for fear of legal repucussions.
I want to see a change in government policy that impose strict fines on companies that waste over proposed targets.
And promote and support companies giving away food to food banks and other charitable causes.
