Initiatives on Prevention of Food Waste in the Retail and Wholesale Trades

Download or read book Initiatives on Prevention of Food Waste in the Retail and Wholesale Trades written by Nordic Council of Ministers and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project was initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers and its waste prevention group. The background to the project is that waste prevention is the highest priority in the waste hierarchy according to the EU Waste Directive. One other reason is the heavily increasing discussions in society on food waste in general. The project has been focusing on amounts of food waste, causes for food waste generation and initiatives to reduce the amounts of food waste from the retail and wholesale sector. Furthermore it gives some recommendations to measures that could be taken to change the present situation.