Tag: food waste
Minister Creed chairs Food Wise High Level Implementation Committee, covering topics...
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, yesterday chaired the 23rd meeting of the Food Wise High Level Implementation Committee (HLIC)...
Fighting food waste in the Netherlands – Bord Bia
Ellen Codd, Amsterdam office, Bord Bia - Irish Food Board
Dutch consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the amount of food wasted every year, and...
The GMO debate continues – Bord Bia
Siobhan Bradley, Origin Green Ambassador
As the public perception of GMO foods in Europe become increasingly negative, many countries including France, Germany, Austria and Luxembourg...
Reducing packaging and food waste
Elaine O’Connor, Origin Green Ambassador, USA
Packaging will play a vital role in reducing the amount of global food and produce waste. The FAO estimates that one-third...
EPA welcomes increase in composting and anaerobic digestion of waste
The EPA welcomes the increase in composting and anaerobic digestion of biodegradable waste - the quantity recycled increased by 15 percent between 2015...
War on waste continues as Creed announces two new projects to...
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., has announced that two projects will receive funding this year from his Department’s...
Minister for Environment Launches Food Waste Charter
Andrew Mullins, Origin Green, Bord Bia – Irish Food Board
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates currently that one-third of all food...
Smart Approach to Food Waste
Too Good to Go (TGTG) was introduced to the UK last month – an app that was founded in Denmark in 2015 and...
EU Research Turning Food Waste Into Feed
Global demand for food is expected to increase by 70% by 2050, while a steep increase in biomass use will also put...
New Food Waste Framework Points To A Fundamental Rethink of Food...
To solve the problem of food waste we need to radically rethink how our food is produced and consumed, researchers argue in a recent...