With a third of all food produced globally wasted every year, we are clear about the collective role we must play in helping to drive permanent change across our industry. We’re making good use of technology to understand our food waste footprint and are working in partnership to halve it by 2030.
“I always knew we should and could be tracking waste but was overwhelmed at how to do it. This programme made it so easy!”
Snap Inc.’s General Manager John Leone.
- We created recipe videos with a food waste focus and published an extended edition of our digital cookbook with new recipes from our chefs around the world, which was read more than 16,000 times in the first week alone.
- Compass Group USA hosted SFWD Live, bringing together hundreds of civic leaders, community organisations and local entrepreneurs focused on reducing food waste.
- Leveraging our size, scale, and reach, we inspired food waste warriors in every corner of the world, reaching a media audience of over 93 million people and generating more than 26 million impressions on social media.
- We also encouraged more of our clients, colleagues, and customers to take the #StopFoodWasteDay pledge, inspiring thousands to join us in the fight against food waste.
Transforming cooking waste to Biofuel
In Austria, we are working to repurpose our cooking waste into biofuel. Instead of disposing our cooking waste, our partner, Münzer collects the waste and transforms it into biodiesel, which is an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
More than 60 of our Business and Industry (B&I) sites in Austria are signed up to have their waste collected, averaging over 465 tonnes of food waste collection each year. In 2022, we also repurposed 39,629kg of used cooking oil, which is treated and processed into ecologically sustainable biodiesel, equating to a saving of 108,208kg of CO2.
Dedicated commitment to food waste reduction
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