HAMPSHIRE County Council, together with its waste partner Project Integra, is joining forces with food and drink companies to help tackle waste across the UK.

Working together with organisations such as Waitrose, Nestle and Pizza Hut, the partnership has signed up to the 2025 Courtauld Commitment, to make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable.

With more than two billion extra people on the planet to feed by 2050, the Courtauld Commitment 2025 is the world-leading voluntary agreement, run by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), to reduce the environmental impact of food and drink, from farm to fork and beyond. It has three ambitious targets for a:

• 20 per cent cut in volume of UK food and drink waste

• 20 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas intensity of food and drink consumed in the UK

• Reduction in water use in the supply chain

The council and Project Integra will be inspiring action and evoking change to help people get more value from the food and drink they buy, and how to find ways to make best use of food without throwing it away, linking to the well-known national Love Food Hate Waste initiative.

In one year, household waste has been cut by 7,600 tonnes in Hampshire.