The London food redistribution charity offers online event to inform produce sector about new food waste legislation
The Felix Project – a leading London food redistribution charity – is hosting a webinar on new mandatory food segregation legislation, explaining how it may affect produce wholesalers, manufacturers and caterers.
The event called Food Waste Matters: Get Ready For The New Food Waste Recycling Rules will take place online tomorrow (Wednesday 19 March) from 10:30am to 12pm during Food Waste Action Week.
The webinar will feature several speakers, including Paul Bains – supply manager at The Felix Project; Sian Morgan, specialist, food waste at WRAP; Adrian McCaffrey, HR & facilities manager at Mustard Foods; and Mohammed Patel. senior waste & donations manager UK & EU at Amazon.
The speakers will examine how the new legislation could increase the proportion of edible food waste that is redistributed to people.
Morgan will give tips on reducing food waste and take attendees through the new WRAP guidelines allowing increased flexibility of what items that can be safely re-distributed to people.
Meanwhile, Mustard Food and Amazon, both Felix suppliers, will share their food recycling and redistribution experiences and explain why they think it’s important surplus produce should go to people in need.
According to The Felix Project, only 1 per cent of surplus food in the UK ends up being redistributed – something the charity would like to see improve.
Last year, The Felix Project worked with over 300 suppliers to rescue almost 16,000 tonnes of good quality surplus food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
The charity redistributed it to 1,200 community organisations, such as food banks, primary schools and homeless shelters, to help feed those experiencing food insecurity.
Richard Smith, head of food supply at The Felix Project said: “These new laws will mean food waste can no longer be thrown into general waste, so we hope this webinar will help all those in the food sector, such as wholesalers, manufacturers and caterers, to think about where their waste edible food ends up. We want to help them see how simple it is to give food to The Felix Project and help feed those in who are regularly struggling to afford food.”
To sign up for tomorrow’s event, click here.
