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Net Zero 2040: Our fight against food waste

This year, we achieved a 50.2% reduction in food waste, exceeding our target to halve food waste by 2025 and meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 five years ahead of schedule. By FY25, WasteWatch had been implemented across sites representing 85% of our raw material spend, demonstrating the effectiveness of our data-driven approach to identifying, measuring and reducing food waste throughout our operations.

Serving up success

How Sodexo UK & Ireland halved its food waste five years ahead of the UN SDG 12.3 target and saved £3.6million over 10 years.

A 2025 food waste reduction success story from Sodexo UK & Ireland

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Cutting Our Food Waste by over 50% 

Tracking food waste to create actionable insights

A third of all food produced globally ends up being wasted*, making food waste one of the greatest contributors to climate change and biggest scandals of our time.

Whether it’s during the ordering, storage, preparation, or serving process, we are working together with our teams, clients and supply partners to reduce food and collateral waste across Sodexo sites.

WasteWatch is a food waste measurement system that provides kitchen teams with real-time insights into what is being wasted and why. Deployed across more than 500 sites and covering over 85% of our raw material spend, it plays a critical role in helping us identify efficiencies, reduce waste and improve operational performance.

*According to the United Nations Environment Programme.

 

Reducing food waste across our business

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How to change food buying trends to help reduce food waste

We commissioned research among 275 food procurement senior decision-makers across the private and public sector in the UK to understand their thoughts on how food buying trends need to change in order to reduce food waste.

Read about the impact of food buying trends

Our Appetite for Action

In 2021, we launched Appetite for Action. This is an ongoing mission for Sodexo with the goal of using our scale and food industry expertise to convene and work alongside political and industry stakeholders, chefs and customers to drive meaningful change in food service procurement to help cut food waste.

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