food waste

Plymouth OLIO volunteers share more than 8,000 meals in partnership with Tesco

Food Waste Heroes in Plymouth have prevented 8,302 meals from going to waste in the past year, thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between Tesco and food-sharing app OLIO.

In August last year Tesco became the first supermarket to partner with OLIO, which provides unsold surplus food fit for consumption to people in the community.

In the first full year of the partnership...

Nearly 30,000 tonnes of food is wasted, says Tesco

The Supermarket giant Tesco has unveiled new food waste figures for its operations and supply chain, alongside statistics that show 68 per cent of bagged salad is wasted and 35 per cent of this waste occurs in the home.

As a first step in reducing this waste, Tesco is today announcing it will end multi-buys on large bags of salad and is developing mix-and-match promotions for smaller...