The new government must stop letting food waste slide

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The new government has an opportunity to introduce a world-leading mandatory food waste reporting policy, writes Too Good to Go's Sophie Trueman

When it comes to taking on climate change, talk is cheap. And when it comes to food waste, the UK has done a lot of talking. Every year we throw away 10.7 million tonnes of food, an amount produced by...

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