Waste Reduction

Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill is a priority for FDF. In particular FDF's Five-Fold Environmental Ambition includes an aspiration for FDF members to send zero food and packaging waste from their sites to landfill from 2015. This reflects FDF's support for the waste hierarchy which places disposal such as landfill at the bottom as the least preferable option. At the top of the hierarchy is waste prevention and FDF members are working with Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), FareShare, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) and other partners to achieve this wherever possible through adoption of best practice.

We are also working with Government, WRAP and the Environment Agency, the waste industry and others to encourage growth in the nation's waste treatment infrastructure, for example anaerobic digestion plants and composting facilities. Both of these are environmentally preferable options to landfilling.