Costa Coffee joins pledge to slash food waste by 2030
The chain will work with government to share best practices and deliver collective action.
Costa Coffee signed up to the government’s pledge to help halve food waste by 2030.
The coffee chain attended the ‘Step up to the Plate’ symposium last month, hosted by the government’s Food Surplus and Waste Champion, Ben Elliot. Alongside several high street brands and supermarkets, Costa Coffee pledged to act and help raise public awareness in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
“We have a number of initiatives to ensure there is minimal food waste, which includes, first and foremost, an efficient ordering system designed to reduce waste before it is created. We also allow food sold during the last hour of trading that is in date but cannot be sold the following day to be discounted by 50% and empower our stores to make food donations to local charities via our Food Surplus Policy,” Costa Coffee head of sustainability Victoria Moorhouse said.
“Any food waste that cannot be redistributed we send to Anaerobic Digestion, where it is turned into biogas and biofertilizer.”
“The UK is showing real leadership in this area, and together we will end the environmental and economic scandal that is food waste,” Environment Secretary Michael Gove added.
