In 2018, IGD and WRAP launched the ground-breaking Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, a world-first initiative outlining the route the UK food industry should follow to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 and halve food loss and waste by 2030. The Roadmap calls on businesses to implement a Target, Measure, Act strategy, committing to measure food surplus and waste in a consistent way, share what they have learnt and act to reduce their own food waste, and that of their suppliers and customers. 

Four years on and the number of food businesses involved has grown to 300, including all of the major grocery retailers. Now 221 large businesses are implementing ‘Target, Measure, Act’, an increase of 7% year-on-year, representing 60% of their sectors. Retail food waste has reduced by 8% between 2018 to 2021, saving almost £62 million ending up as waste.

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The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap

The UK's largest retailers, food producers and manufacturers, hospitality and food service companies have committed to milestones laid out in a new industry Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, developed in conjunction with IGD and WRAP to tackle food waste in the UK.

Some of the companies supporting the roadmap

Each business has agreed to:

Target

Set a food waste reduction target for its own UK operations, aligned with, or contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.

Measure

In a consistent way and share what they learn.
 

Act

To reduce its own food waste, to work in partnership with suppliers and to help consumers reduce food waste.