Sentence examples for retail waste from inspiring English sources

While consumer and retail waste has taken the spotlight, farms have been overlooked.

When added to the retail waste, it takes the amount of food lost close to half of all produce grown, experts say.

The industry has set itself a very low voluntary target - under the Courtauld Agreement, which is facilitated by Wrap - to reduce household food waste by 5% by 2015 (as well as to reduce their own manufacturing and retail waste by just 3%).

Institutional and retail food waste are potentially worth having a go at.

According to data obtained by the Environment Agency, total UK retail food waste is 1.6 million tonnes per year.

Now The Range, owned by the Dawsons, has 100 stores and 8,000 employees across the U.K. with plans to expand to Europe and the U.S. The company has ventured beyond retail into waste management, manufacturing, dry cleaning and other businesses.

Holmes et al. [35] conducted a PAS 2050 life-cycle study for five food products in the UK, starting with agricultural production, up to the delivery of food to the catering site, employing past studies' data to evaluate the GHG emissions resulting from raw materials, energy use in manufacture, distribution, retail and wastes.

Now the supermarkets are issuing their own finger-wagging advice (which is sort of hypocritical, because it is in food production and retail that most waste occurs).

She is Marks & Spencer's face of Shwopping – the retailer's drive to conquer waste in fashion retail where every item donated ("shwopped") by customers is re-sold, re-used or recycled by Oxfam – because this is the sort of logical, solutions-oriented approach to style that Lumley favours.

"We can use underground space for all the urban services that do not require daylight – transport, waste management, retail," he says.

The company anticipates that it will fit well into a number of industry sectors including retail storage and distribution, waste recycling and reprocessing.