Food Waste During a Global Pandemic: An Opportunity for Change

3 Min Read By Richard Walker

Amid the panic that the Covid-19 virus has placed the world under in terms of healthcare and economic survival, another pressing issue has arrived at the forefront of concern.

This is not an issue which has spawned from nothing. It is one which has been prominently circling for decades but, with the current situation, has been drastically exacerbated.

We are referring to food waste.

Britain, as a nation, is responsible for more than 4.5 million tonnes of food waste each year.

This figure will be simply incomparable with what we should expect to see come the end of the year when the 2020 waste statistics are produced.

Why, though, will the lockdown have such a cataclysmic impact?

Panic BuyingAs news of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy began to feature on world news, British shoppers swarmed to supermarkets in search of hand sanitiser, cleaning products, and toilet rolls.

Dramatic? Well, according to grocery retailers around the UK — yes, absolutely. The rhetoric reiterated by…