Twelve core strategies for rethinking resource consumption and optimizing the use of resources to transition to a circular economy are detailed in the Introduction to the series. [...] In the UK, Globally, 50% of every dollar spent in the food industry is related for example, all 1.6 million fields that provide agricultural goods to restaurants,14 and as the popularity of restaurants has grown, are monitored for agricultural data to ensure that they are being the restaurant industry has been a growing contributor to food managed in the most sustainable way possible.24 waste. [...] Overview of Circular Economy generate nearly one million tonnes of waste every year, and Practices in the Agri-Food Sector three-quarters of this waste is edible food.16 This food waste costs the United Kingdom’s hospitality and restaurant industry C$4.3 Agri-food companies have begun to invest in researching and billion annually.17 implementing circular solutions to address food loss and waste. [...] • Italian Gadda Law: Passed in 2016, this law encourages businesses to give surplus food away for free through tax breaks, campaigns, and the streamlining of bureaucracy.79 Understanding Canadian food waste and the Canadian • EU’s Landfill Directive: Created in 2003, calls for a reduction circular economy of food in the amount of biodegradable municipal solid waste disposed to landfill. [...] archive.org/save/ With the goal of reducing food waste in the North NZWCFoodLossWasteStrategy.pdf American commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors, this comprehensive report proposes wide- Building on previous submissions of a strategy to the reaching strategies to reduce and recover food loss and federal government, the strategy presented in this report wast.
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