Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted food

Food companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have said.

About a third of the food produced globally every year is binned, much of it before it reaches the consumer at a cost of almost 22bn annually to the UK economy.