Tesco Tackles Food Waste
One major cause of food waste is food becoming damaged during the distribution process , and part of Tesco ’ s food waste mission involves looking at new practices for handling those products in able to get more product from the farm to the retail floor . In March , in acknowledgement of its status as the largest retailer of fresh eggs in the UK , Tesco introduced a new egg carton packaging system at its Scotland and Northern Ireland locations with plans to roll the packaging out throughout the UK by the end of 2014 . As an effort to conserve eggs , the cartons separate each egg within a dozen into its own recycled plastic pod – the idea being that , if one egg breaks during distribution , that egg can be removed without the entire carton being contaminated . Through this method , Tesco is hoping to save up to a million eggs each year from becoming a casualty of food waste .
Connecting People with Food Waste Solutions through Mobile Technology But even food that makes it to the grocery store intact runs the risk of becoming food waste when perishable products run up against the sell-by date without being purchased . When
How Tesco calculate their food waste
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