food waste

M&S Food is teaming up with Too Good To Go to offer customers across Northern Ireland ‘Surprise Bags’ packed with surplus bakery products at a fraction of their retail price

M&S launches £3.80 ‘surprise bags’ of surplus bakery treats across NI

Co-op has launched a new ‘Too Good To Waste’ scheme to reduce food waste (Photos: Pexels)

Major UK supermarket cuts bakery prices by 50% to fight food waste

HelloFresh sends out just the right quantity of fresh foods and other ingredients in a box, straight to your door

HelloFresh: I reviewed three recipes to see what the fuss was about

Morrisons giving away 185k wonky carrots this Christmas - how to grab

The Shelfy claims to be able to make food last up to 12 days longer

This gadget can make food last longer in your fridge - we've tested it

King Charles

Why King Charles eats avocados: a nutritional expert explains benefits

Aldi will be reducing food waste by removing pineapple crowns. (Photo credit: Aldi/Getty)

Aldi makes change to fruit product in a bid to save food waste

Sustainability experts, Business Waste, found that Brits fill around 7 million bins worth of food waste over the festive season.

Unique ways to reuse leftovers and save money this Christmas

Food waste in the UK is a huge issue. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Food waste in the UK is a huge issue

A sculpture shows the enormity of food waste collected over the summer

Here are 15 foods you can eat past their expiration date, saving money and reducing food waste.

15 foods you can eat way past their expiration date

Aldi making huge change to milk bottles in stores

Another major UK supermarket is introducing new vacuum packaging for its beef mince products - despite complaints against Sainsbury’s who became the first chain to make the controversial switch earlier this year.

Another supermarket makes controversial switch to vac-pack mince

Tesco to scrap use by dates on range of own brand dairy products

The ‘Cater 4 Later’ bring home box scheme will give diners the opportunity to take leftover food home, while allowing restaurants and cafés across Belfast to cut down on food waste. The boxes are provided by Council and are made of food grade cardboard and can be composted, so customers can dispose of them along with their food and garden waste

New scheme for diners helping Belfast restaurants to reduce food waste

The ‘Taste Me, Don’t Waste Me’ boxes, which contain an assortment of surplus fresh fruits and vegetables, are now available across 200 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide beginning this week.

Sainsbury’s launches £2 fruit and vegetable boxes
Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has launched £2 ‘fresh’ fruit and vegetable boxes to help customers have affordable, nutritious food.
Rahmah Ghazali

Co-op to remove best before date from 150 fruit & veg products

Iceland has teamed up with Currys and Birds Eye to hand out free freezers to low income families

Iceland to giveaway free freezers to low income families

Aldi will be offering customers discount "magic bags" of food almost about to expire.

Aldi announces ‘magic bags’ filled with £10 worth of food for £3.30

Tesco extend Plant Chef range during Veganuary

Neil Bradley, Food Safe System manager who is using the grant to roll out our F*Waste smart scales food waste prevention platform, into hospitality businesses in the Newry area, to enable them to reduce their food waste

Food waste smart scales to tackle NI climate crisis

Food waste has become an alarming problem

The average NI family bins £500 worth of food every year...here are some tips to...

British households look set to throw out nearly 200,000 tonnes of food this Chri...

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Tesco to remove some fruit and veg '˜best before' dates to cut down on food wast...

Recycle Week begins: Householders are encouraged to recycle more food waste during recycle week and to continue it as part of their daily routine. Launching 'Recycle Week' at Woodvale Community Garden, Belfast are; (Back row left-right) Philip Mc Murray, DAERA; David Small, Chief Executive NIEA, Winnie Spence, Chairperson Woodvale Community Garden and Dr Ian Garner, WRAP NI. (Front Row left-right) Caolan Woods, Natural World Products; Celine Magill, Natural World Products; Tommy Young, Gardener; Mary Brady, Belfast City Council. Photo Brian Morrison

Play your part during '˜Recycle Week'

There will be a complete ban on food waste in Belfast City Council black bins

Black bins will go uncollected in Belfast if food waste is found

Asdas Wonky Veg Box, which will be available in its Northern Ireland stores this week, is welcomed by Dr Ian Garner of the Love Food Hate Waste Campaign and George Rankin, Senior Director for Asda NI.

Wonky vegetable box now available in Asda
Food waste is being tackled head on by major supermarket Asda as the Wonky Vegetable Box is available in Northern Ireland.
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