Ten years of fighting food waste with FareShare & Tesco

Good food should never go to waste but, all too often, food that is perfectly good to eat ends up being thrown away. In the UK, 4.6 million tonnes of good to-eat food goes to waste in the food industry every year, enough for 10 billion meals.*

Meanwhile, over 7 million adults in the UK are currently facing food insecurity.**

To combat this widespread issue, Tesco partnered with food charity FareShare to reduce food waste across all its operations by ensuring that food goes to people, rather than waste.

Tesco and FareShare work together to look for new ways to reduce food waste, from the innovative Community Food Connection scheme, which will celebrate its ten-year anniversary this June, to ensuring surplus food from across Tesco’s whole supply chain surplus is redistributed. Since 2012, the two organisations have built a strong and dependable partnership that continues to go from strength to strength. Together, they have redistributed more than 130,000 tonnes of surplus food – the equivalent of over 220m meals – to over 8,000 charities across the UK helping to feed people in their community. *Hidden Waste: The Scale and Impact of Food Waste in Primary Production. **The Food Foundation.