Food waste

Cono Kaasmakers creates more value from cream streams

Cono Kaasmakers and butter specialist Van de Koe have joined forces. The international cheese company plans to create added value from its cream streams. For Cono, this is an important step in strengthening its position ..

Too Good To Go saves more than 156 million meals

10 June 2026

In 2025, Too Good To Go saved more than 156 million meals from going to waste worldwide. This brings the total number of meals saved since the company’s launch to more than 600 million. According to the company, this pre...

Dutch consumers waste nearly 30% less food than in 2015

09 June 2026

Dutch consumers throw away less food at home than they did ten years ago. This is according to new research by the Dutch Nutrition Center. In 2025, Dutch consumers wasted an average of 25.5 kilograms of solid food per pe...

Value loss remains a blind spot in the meat supply chain

09 June 2026

Food loss in the meat supply chain is not just about waste. Products that remain safe and suitable for consumption can also lose value. That is one of the findings of the European Breadcrumb project. In the project, meat...

AH increases awareness of use-by and best-before dates

03 June 2026

Albert Heijn has now added information about shelf-life dates to more than half of all its private-label packaging. In doing so, the supermarket chain has achieved the primary objective of the Coalition Shelf-life. Throu...

NutriControl can make specific analyses in a new laboratory

11 May 2026

What’s in food, feed, and dairy? And perhaps even more importantly: what isn’t? NutriControl investigates this every single day. With a new laboratory in Veghel, the company is taking the next step in flexibility, tailor...

Albert Heijn deploys AI to reduce bread waste

05 May 2026

Albert Heijn is rolling out a new approach to tackle food waste in its bakery section. The supermarket is combining smart baking with dynamic pricing across all stores. Using AI, the assortment of bread products is bette...

Wheat bran: from by-product to egg replacer

28 April 2026

Wheat bran is produced in large volumes worldwide, yet remains underutilized in food applications. This is despite its content of valuable proteins. Research from the University of Groningen shows that this by-product ha...

Lidl turns residual streams into circular animal feed

24 April 2026

Lidl Nederland is launching a pilot that takes a different approach to food waste. As the first supermarket in Europe, the chain is converting unsellable food into circular animal feed. This shifts the role of residual s...

Foodservice joins forces to reduce food waste

22 April 2026

The foodservice sector is taking the next step in tackling food waste. In early April, the kick-off of the Foodservice Cluster took place at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. Various parties from the sector came toge...

Dutch military takes action on food waste

10 April 2026

During large-scale field exercises abroad, the Dutch military provides thousands of soldiers with meals every day. Proper nutrition is crucial for deployability and endurance. At the same time, part of the food remains u...

Food Tech Event 2026 – the one-stop trade fair for the food industry

07 April 2026

On 20 and 21 May 2026, the 3rd edition of Food Tech Event will take place: the one-stop-shop trade fair for food production and processing. For two full days, the Brabanthallen in ’s-Hertogenbosch will focus on innovatio...

No Waste Army launches National Potato Week

07 April 2026

An exceptionally large surplus is putting pressure on the potato supply chain. No Waste Army is therefore launching National Potato Week from April 17 through 26. The goal is to save 500 million kilos of potatoes from go...

Packaging: necessary or not?

26 March 2026

Packaging is often under fire in public debate. It is seen as unnecessary and harmful to the environment. Wageningen researchers place clear reservations on that view. According to them, the picture is too black-and-whit...

Dutch consumers waste 33 kilos of food per year

18 March 2026

Food waste in the Netherlands is declining, but too much is still being wasted. And the clock toward 2030 keeps ticking. “Although this decline is an important step, the Netherlands is not yet on track to meet the target...

More visibility on waste in the AGF sector through processors

16 March 2026

The food waste monitor in the AGF sector is gaining another layer. For the first time, processing companies have been included as a separate subsector. This makes it clearer where losses occur. Not because there is sudde...