Anti-food waste app Too Good To Go has released an open letter, co-signed by over 30 companies within the food, retail and manufacturing sectors, calling for “reconsideration of mandatory public food waste reporting”.
The letter, signed by the likes of Marks & Spencer, Aldi, Sainsburys, Tesco and Waitrose, was published in partnership with the British Retail Consortium. The letter references progress made in reducing food waste, such as “AI and innovative tools”, “improved staff training and opportunities to identify mutually economically beneficial collaborations”, to “partnerships with surplus food marketplaces”.
Too Good To Go and its signatories go on to say that the action they take as individual businesses “won’t tackle the issue alone”. The companies say that they “need mandatory food waste reporting to help measure and judge if meaningful impact is being achieved, and to encourage more action to be taken across the whole industry”.
The letter warns the cost of not bringing in the measures would far outweigh any costs to the industry of extra reporting.