Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion

Mr. Kevin Maher:

On the food waste charter, as Mr. Kelly said, we had the EPA before our FDI sustainability group, which we run and which meets regularly. At the end of June, the EPA is running a food waste charter event. We have shared that event with the members. We hope that on the back of that we will get more signatories to the charter. From a food waste perspective, many of our members approach it through origin green so they all have specific targets and actions through that. Therefore, it is about trying to couple-up the origin green with the food waste charter.