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From waste to resource productivity: food waste

Report examining why and how we should reduce food waste in the UK.

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It explores the benefits and costs of reducing food waste in the UK and how policy-makers could do this.

Officials in the Government Office for Science wrote this paper based on consultation and seminars with:

  • Professor Sir Mark Walport, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Professor Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • experts from academia, industry, government and non-government organisations

The views expressed in this report do not represent Defra policy.

Read the main report: ‘From waste to resource productivity’.

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Published 14 December 2017

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