Lord Kamall
Main Page: Lord Kamall (Conservative - Life peer)Cost of Living: Food Waste
Lord Kamall Excerpts(1 year, 2 months ago)
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Lord Harlech (Con)
My Lords, I sense we are going over the same ground a bit here, and I can only reiterate what I have said already. It makes good sense for businesses to reduce their food waste. However, the overwhelming amount of food waste in this country, 70%, comes from individual households. Therefore, it is about education and helping individual households and consumers to buy what they need, use what they buy and waste as little as possible.
Lord Kamall (Con)
My Lords, if companies are saying that they believe that monitoring food waste is a good thing and they are making money from reducing food waste, why not just have a levy on companies to pay for that monitoring so we can all be happy?
Lord Harlech (Con)
Levying sounds like something for the Treasury to think about.