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Food waste: top companies call for mandatory reporting

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Anti-food waste app Too Good To Go, in partnership with the British Retail Consortium (BRC), has released an open letter signed by more than 30 companies from the UK’s food, retail and manufacturing sectors calling for mandatory public food waste reporting. Signatories of the letter,…

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