For Businesses

A third of all the world’s food is wasted and we all have a role in solving this problem. In the UK surveys suggest that around 80% of customers want businesses to tackle food waste.

Food Waste
Pyramid

By signing up to the Food Waste Pyramid, food businesses can highlight positive initiatives to reduce food waste and promote practical solutions that save resources by avoiding unwanted surpluses, diverting surplus food to charities or livestock feed and avoiding landfill. The Food Waste Pyramid also shows the simple steps that businesses can take to tackle food waste, in order of priority.

Move your mouse over the pyramid on the right to learn more.

Reduce

Useful contacts

  • The Insitute of Grocery Distribution (IGD)

    Technical advice, best practice and tools for food and grocery industry supply chain waste management

    visit website / send email / (0) 1923 857141

  • LRS Consultancy

    Provides strategic and practical support to organisations to assist with food waste reduction

    visit website / send email / 020 7324 6379

  • Sustainable Restaurant Association

    Supporting sustainable restaurants reduce food waste through the Too Good To Waste campaign

    visit website / send email / 020 7479 4224

  • Unilever Food Solutions

    Supporting businesses reduce food waste with its Waste Reducing Toolkit

    visit website / 0800 7833728

  • WRAP

    Provides free, independent support to organisations on food waste reduction and recycling

    visit website / 0808 100 2040

  • Courtauld commitment

    Voluntary agreement administered by WRAP aimed at reducing food waste in the groceries retail sector

    visit website / send email / 0808 100 2040

Feed people in need

Useful contacts

  • Esther Community Enterprise

    Giving purpose to surplus through food redistribution

    visit website / send email / (0) 0794 7488497  

  • Fareshare

    Redistributing surplus food of all types to charities nationwide

    visit website / send email / 020 7394 2468

  • Foodcycle

    Redistributing food to people in need in local communities

    visit website / send email / 020 7377 8771

  • Company Shop Ltd

    Commercial organisation offering surplus food at reduced prices through a chain of staff shops

    visit website / send email / 01226 355187

  • Plan Z Heroes

    Map connecting businesses which have surplus food with nearby charities that need it

    visit website / send email /

  • People's Kitchen

    Redistributing surplus food to feed the homeless & vulnerable

    visit website / send email / 0191 222 0699 

  • Real Aid

    Redistribution nationwide of ambient food products close to best before date

    visit website / send email / 01482 880660 or 07917757369

  • The Trussell Trust (The Foodbank Network)

    Network and map of local community foodbanks redistributing surplus or donated food

    visit website / send email / 01722 427110

Feed livestock

Useful contacts

  • AB nutrition

    Producer and supplier of food waste animal feeds & pet food

    visit website / send email / 01270 618360 

  • SugaRich

    Food animal feed supplier and producer

    visit website / 01280 840692

  • UK Farm Feeds Ltd

    Collection of food waste from supermarkets for animal feed - Yorkshire area, able to advise in London

    visit website / send email / 01457 600555

Composting &
100% renewable energy

Useful contacts

  • Biffa

    Collection and recycling of food waste. Provides bins & free waste audit

    visit website / 0800 307 307

  • Biocollectors

    Collection and recycling of food waste for agricultural fertilizer

    visit website / send email / 0333 9009 333

  • BiogenGreenFinch

    Anaerobic digestion plant. Collection by Cawleys

    visit website / 01234 827249

  • Bywaters

    Collection and recycling of food waste By-cycler scheme. Free waste audit

    visit website / send email / 020 7001 6000

  • Cawleys

    Collection and recycling of food waste Eco-eating scheme. Free waste audit & recycling performance reports

    visit website / send email / 0845 260 2000

  • Centrol Recylcing Group Ltd

    Collection and recycling of food waste

    visit website / send email / 08000 281 125

  • Countrystyle Group

    Collection & recycling of food waste. Bins provided

    visit website / 0800 327 7830

  • Greenzone Facilities Management Ltd

    Collection & recycling of food waste

    visit website / send email /  0845 8844550

  • London Waste Ltd

    Collection and recycling of food waste

    visit website / 020 8803 1322

  • Loop

    Collection and recycling of food waste, plus onsite recycling

    visit website / 0800 542 14001

  • Paper Round

    Collection and recycling of food waste. Free waste audit

    visit website / 020 7407 9100

  • Prosper De Mulder Ltd (PDM Group)

    Collection and food waste recycling

    visit website / send email / (0)24 7639 7571

  • QBS

    Collection and recycling of food waste & alcoholic beverages for bio-fuel

    visit website / send email / 01284 756100

  • Reconomy

    Food waste segregation & recycling

    visit website / send email / 0800 834 133

  • Ridan

    Composting machinery supply

    visit website / send email / 01598 760473

  • SAICA Natur UK

    Collection of food waste and recycling

    visit website / send email / 01666 825619

  • Shanks Group

    Food waste recycling and waste auditing. Analytical services. Consultancy. On-site monitoring

    visit website / send email / 0800 28 28 77

  • Simply Waste Solutions

    Collection and recycling of food waste. Bins provided

    visit website / send email / 0800 781 7750

  • SITA

    Collection and composting of food waste

    visit website / 0870 421 1122

  • The All Clear Company

    Collection and composting of food waste

    visit website / 020 3589 0313

  • The Association for Organics Recycling (AfOR)

    Provides a technical enquiry service for its members from the biodegradable resource management industry

    visit website / send email / (0)1933446440

  • Tidy Planet

    Sell food waste solutions machinery

    visit website / send email / 01625 666798

  • UK Green Services

    Collection and composting of food waste

    visit website / send email / 0800 144 4726

  • Veolia Environmental Services

    Collection and recycling of food waste. Free waste audit

    visit website / 0845 6060 460

  • Vertal

    Collection and composting of food waste

    visit website / send email / 2086484555

  • Viridor

    Collection and composting of food waste

    visit website / send email / 0845 835 0782

  • Waste Recycling Group

    Food waste collection & recycling. Bins provided

    visit website / 01604 826200

  • West London Composting

    Composting site / sales

    visit website / send email / 01895 634912

Disposal

Reduce

Avoid generating food waste in the first place: plan orders to avoid overproduction; maximise shelf-life through better storage; identify alternative markets to keep food in the human food chain

Feed people in need

Direct quality surplus food to charities and organisations that redistribute food

Feed livestock

Direct food unfit for human consumption to livestock feed: wherever possible, divert legally permissible bakery, fruit, vegetables and dairy products to farm animals

Compost & 100%
renewable energy

Send unavoidable food waste for composting, or to produce fertiliser and 100% renewable fuel for electricity and heat, or transport

Disposal

Avoid landfill wherever environmentally friendly alternatives are available
Food Waste Pyramid for London designed by Tristram Stuart in collaboration with the Feeding the 5000 steering group: the Mayor’s Waste Strategy team, the London Food Board, Recycle for London, Friends of the Earth, WRAP, FareShare & FoodCycle

Sign the Feeding 5k Pledge

We agree with the principles of the food waste pyramid and will implement it where practicable



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