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Uniting in the Food Waste Fight in South Africa Dr Richard Swannell Director 15 February 2017 @R_Swannell
Uniting in the Food Waste Fight in South Africa
Dr Richard Swannell
Director
15 February 2017
@R_Swannell
WRAP
Introduction & ambition
A world in which resources are used
sustainably
WHAT WRAP DOES
Global Sustainable
Development Goals
Governments
Manufacturers Retailers
Citizens
WRAP
© WRAP 2016
WRAP is bringing together the most influential businesses to help cut resource use by a further 20% by 2025 in the UK
What we do
Businesses who participated in the Courtauld Commitment saved over £100 million by reducing food waste in 3 years
24,000 tonnes of food prevented
£67 million saved
1.5 million meals
redistributed
Influencing customers
UK Household food
waste: 1 million t/y savings 4 Mt GHG savings
$3.4 billion
Our ambition
Food waste Resilient Supply Chains
Healthy Sustainable Eating
The Business Case for Change: Protocols and Productivity
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In field Grading
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Packing and transportation
Spoilage in kitchen Preparation
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Supply Chain example: 100 potatoes in restaurant waste
eaten
Return on investment by sector
1200 business sites
200 companies
17 countries
For each $1 invested $14 of
financial benefit realised
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Business Case: Detailed findings
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Food manufacture
Hospitality
Food service - business
Food service - public sector
Food producer
Business Case: Detailed findings
The true cost of waste
Visible costs
Invisible costs
Disposal costs
• Lost materials • Energy costs • Lost labour • Wasted water • Other costs
On average, the true cost of wasted materials is about ten times the cost of disposal.
Summary: Economic Case
• Saving money and driving efficiencies
• Building resilient supply chains
• Reducing household food waste = less cost for the public sector
• Customers have more money and may trade up
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”
Delivering change and building Supply Chain Resilience
Embedding change across the value chain
• Whole crop purchase, enables finding
markets for more food. • smaller bananas sold in Value
ranges • single bananas sold in Tesco Metro
stores • Waste at farm reduced from 10% to
4%
Whole crop purchase: bananas
Provide products more efficiently
Nestlé UK and First Milk Strategic supplier relationship
• Improve efficiency in milk and chocolate crumb supply chain
• 40,000 tonnes of effluent water savings
• 25 tonnes of food waste savings
Packaging innovation: Helping the customer
• Convenient split portion pack: ‘eat
one, store one’ • Potential to save 3,100t poultry waste for customers ($32.3m/yr)
Working together to deliver the future
Timeline
2016
SDG 12.3 Achieved
10% pop. in
countries actively
focused on food waste:
10 countries
2020 2025 2030
Building skills and expertise on food
waste reduction
40% pop. in
countries actively
focused on food waste:
20 countries
75% pop. in
countries actively
focused on food waste:
50 countries
Country focus
2016
SDG 12.3 Achieved
U.S. Japan
U.K. France
Australia Netherlands
Sweden Denmark Norway
New Zealand
2020 2025 2030
China Brazil
Mexico Germany
Turkey
South Africa Saudi Arabia
Malaysia/ Thailand Poland
Venezuela Taiwan
Belgium Greece
Czech Rep. Portugal Hungary
UAE Austria
Switzerland Israel
Hong Kong Singapore
Finland Ireland
India Indonesia Pakistan Nigeria Russia
Philippines Egypt Italy
South Korea Slovakia
Colombia Spain
Argentina Canada
Peru/Kenya
Building skills
Target Measure Act
Image source: Nestlé
• The challenge is huge
• Measurement is sporadic
• Collectively, we know a lot about how to reduce food waste
• Need to scale up faster- 2030 is not far away
• Collaboration is key
• Act Now
Concluding thoughts
Contact
Questions?
www.wrap.org.uk @WRAP_UK
Dr Richard Swannell [email protected]
+44 (0)1295 819900 + 44 (0) 7950 937174
@R_Swannell
