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A recommended blueprint forfood waste transformation Introduction Food waste is no longer just a cost to be managed. It’s an opportunity to createbusiness and societal value, drive innovation, and build long-term resilience acrossthe food system. As companies active in consumer goods and retail, CGF members have theopportunity to individually move beyond reduction and recycling improvements andembrace a circular growth approach, where nutritional benefits are fully valorized,waste is designed out of the value chain and new value is generated across the fulllifecycle. In tackling the food-waste crisis, prevention remains the most impactful strategy,as avoiding waste before it occurs strengthens profitability, supports farmerlivelihoods, and keeps food and its nutrients in use at their highest value. Independent of the methods chosen, the real transformation depends on enablingaction. This includes engaging with stakeholders and encouraging circularity as acore design principle to remove waste and enable value creation at every stage. Although the challenges ahead are significant, it’s important to recognize thatimportant progress has already been made on these goals. The opportunity now isto build on that momentum. With their experience, CGF members can support moreconsistent, scalable impact. We encourage retailers and manufacturers, along with all other trading partners inthe end-to-end food value chain, to prioritize the hot spots where further action isneeded, identify gaps and opportunities in their food waste road maps, and design,measure, communicate, and scale owned initiatives to support progress across thevalue chain. Sharon Bligh Director of health and sustainability, The Consumer Goods Forum Food waste: Addressing an urgent and growing global issue Food waste poses a massive environmental, social, and economic challenge. Roughlyone-third of all food produced, around 1.3 billion tonnes, is wasted each year,resulting in an estimated global economic loss of about USD 940 billion. The climate impact is equally staggering, with food waste generating roughly 3.3billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Put another way, if food wastewere a country, it would rank as the world’s third-largest emitter after China and theUnited States. Perhaps most distressing: All of this waste occurs while one in nine people aroundthe world faces hunger each day. Source: The Consumer Goods Forum Each year, the world loses 1.3 billion tons offood—nearly one-third of everything weproduce. A challenge of this scale makes onething clear: incremental, isolated action isno longer enough. Through the Food WasteCoalition, we’re uniting leaders across the valuechain to prevent waste at the source and turnwhat remains into new value.”“ Kees Jacobs Consumer Products &Retail Global Insights &Data Lead, Capgemini Recommended blueprint for action Inspiring action on food waste is the primary mission of The Consumer GoodsForum’s Food Waste Coalition. Its steering committee, comprising global retailersand manufacturers, worked with industry and domain experts from Capgemini tobuild this blueprint. Its ambition goes beyond simply reducing or recycling waste, butto help prevent waste at the source and transform what remains into new value. In this paper, we present our recommended Food Waste Transformation Blueprint,a practical and actionable playbook that highlights key areas where food waste canbe designed out of the system through circular principles, data and technologyinnovation, and collaboration among all food system stakeholders, includingconsumers. We invite you to join us as we explore how our industry can help transform foodwaste from an unintended consequence into an avenue of profitability and growth,a stronger and more sustainable food system, and a more responsible future for ourindustry. Our food waste blueprint: Fighting waste on two fronts Our findings, our focus Our Coalition’s Food Waste Transformation Blueprint is the result of desktopresearch, expert interviews, and working sessions conducted January – September2025. Through this process, our team worked to identify the root causes of foodwaste across the value chain, as well as identify industry best practices to helpprevent or overcome these. Our work has revealed that while food waste occurs at many points across the valuechain, every point matters. In this paper, we chose to highlight four key “food wastehot spots”—specific areas within the value chain where action should be focused asboth urgently needed and most feasible to achieve. By examining both high-levelpatterns and the detailed processes beneath them, we pinpoint the practical andactionable recommended practices that can meaningfully reduce waste end-to-end.While not addressed in this paper to maintain a targeted scope, the Coalition hasalso recognised the importance of working on upstream losses and collaboratedwith the WWF on the Global Farm Loss Tool (GFLT) to standar