Retailers

It is not just the Love Food Hate Waste team who are here to help you in the battle against food waste.

Retailers too are working extremely hard to help you get the most from your food, from changing pack portion sizes to providing storage information on products, read what your local retailers are doing here.

ASDA

Asda has launched a 'Waste Not' campaign where they help their customers reduce their food waste through hints and tips in their monthly magazine and websites.

ASDA has a specialist environment team that is continually looking at innovative ways to reduce its impact on the environment. Our goals are to reduce consumption of energy and greenhouse gas emissions, send zero waste to landfill by 2010, and deliver absolute reductions in packaging weight by the end of March 2010.

Find out more on the ASDA website.

The Co-operative Group

The Co-operative is working hard to help their customers reduce their food waste through various in store initiatives.

The Co-operative is providing storage instructions for fruit and vegetables on bags for loose fresh produce.
The Co-operative is switching the emphasis of promotional offers, particularly on perishable foods, from buy one get one free to half price offers, so customers can buy what they need rather than doubling up on items simply to take advantage of the promotional deal.
The Co-operative is also running a series of “Watch Your Waste” events throughout the UK, featuring cookery demonstrations and tips on how to reduce waste including inventive use of leftovers.

At The Co-operative Group we recognise the need to develop our business in a sustainable manner. We aim to increase paper recycling and extend the Co-op/Oxfam mobile WEEE recycling scheme; investigate the increased usage of natural, biodegradable materials in packaging; and support efforts to 'design-out'; packaging waste growth by the end of March 2008, deliver absolute reductions in packaging weight by the end of March 2010, and tackle the amount of food consumers throw away by the end of March 2010.

Find out more on The Co-operative Group website.

Marks & Spencer

Plan A is our five-year, 100-point plan to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our business and our world. It will see us working with our customers and our suppliers to combat climate change, reduce waste, safeguard natural resources, trade ethically and build a healthier nation

Find out more on the Marks & Spencer website.

Morrisons

Morrisons has launched a 'Great Taste, Less Waste' campaign where they help their customers reduce their food waste through hints and tips in their monthly magazine and websites and through various in store initiatives.

Morrisons are labelling their fresh produce so as to advise customers on how best to store food.
On 'Market Street' in Morrisons shoppers can buy one chop or one sausage if that's all they really need.
Morrisons fishmongers seal fish in a pouch so it stays cool from supermarket to fridge.

We aim to prevent waste through a sustainable waste management strategy that focuses on optimisation, reduction, reuse and recycling. All of our stores have the capability to recover cardboard and polythene, which are the largest contributors to waste produced in store. By 2010, we aim through a number of initiatives to recycle, recover or re-direct 50% of the current waste stream away from landfill against the 2005/06 baseline.

Find out more on the Morrisons website.

Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's has launched a 'Love your Leftovers' campaign where they help their customers reduce their food waste through hints and tips on their website and through various in store initiatives.

The 'Love your Leftovers' campaign includes an online archive on leftover cookery that offers tips and recipes to inspire better use of leftovers.
Sainsbury's provide hints and tips on storing food on Sainsbury brand packs and online to help customers use up all their food safely and efficiently.
Sainsbury's are providing smaller sized meals and ingredient packs for single portions and children.

Climate change is a key driver for us so reducing energy, packaging and waste are big priorities for our business. We aim to minimise consumer packaging and carrier bag use as well as the waste from our own business. We will reduce waste to landfill by 50% relative to sales by 2010, against a 2005/06 baseline.

Find out more on the Sainsbury's website.

Tesco

We're committed to recycling, reducing and reusing wherever possible, and we're helping out customers to do the same. We're on track to achieve our target to reduce the number of bags we issue by 25% by 2008. Plus we're committed to reducing packaging by 25% by 2010.

Find out more on the Tesco website.

Waitrose

Waitrose have been working hard to help their customers reduce their food waste through hints and tips in their publications and websites and through various in store initiatives.

Waitrose have worked to provide clearer information on preparation, cooking and storage of its own label products.
Waitrose have given greater prominence and enhanced legibility to on pack date codes to help customers easily identify them.
Where possible, Waitrose indicate on pack a recommended serving size as well as the total number of servings per pack. On some of the own brand packs, Waitrose have also incorporated a measuring gauge to help customers visualise portion sizes.
Waitrose shops offer a range of deli and fresh food counters for bakery, meat, fish and cheese. These counters enable customers to select and purchase the actual quantity they need. Partners serving on these counters also offer advice, such as how much customers may actually need or whether items may be frozen.

Waitrose's longstanding objective is to reduce waste wherever possible, and to reuse or recycle more of what is produced. Waitrose packaging designers are continually looking at ways to improve packaging performance and, where possible, reduce packaging weight. Waitrose continually explores the environmental and technical feasibility of alternative materials, such as biodegradable packaging. Waitrose always aims to minimise food waste through accurate ordering, but where it arises, Waitrose is rolling out food donation to shops where FareShare can provide a collection service. Donated food is redistributed to charities throughout the UK working with homeless and vulnerable people.

Find out more on the Waitrose website.

Courtauld Commitment

To demonstrate their commitment to cutting waste from their products 35 of the major grocery retailers, suppliers and brands have signed up to a voluntary agreement called the Courtauld Commitment.

The Courtauld Commitment aims to:

Design out grocery packaging waste growth by 2008 - This first objective has been met despite increases in sales and population.
Deliver absolute reductions in packaging waste by 2010.
Help reduce the amount of food the nation's householders throw away by 155,000 tonnes by 2010, against a 2008 baseline. Further information on the Courtauld Commitment can be found on the WRAP website.