The UK hospitality sector faces its biggest challenge yet as 2012 brings a fourth year of retrenchment, with consumer confidence worsening andunemployment set to rise according to foodservice consultancy Horizons.
With a year of austerity in prospect, the country’s 260,000 eating out establishments, which generate around £42bn-worth of sales per year, will have to work even harder than last year to tempt people to spend their money on eating out.
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Defra has claimed that 17% of all food bought by UK shoppers ends up in the bin.
Based on the research, the average person throws out £26.68 worth of food every month – equivalent to £346.84 a year.
The Grocer reported that Single-person households are the worst offenders, throwing out 22% of the food they buy.
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Outdoor enthusiasts will for the first time be able to use personal locator beacons to send distress signals from the UK’s remote areas to an international satellite system.
New regulations have come into force allowing the use of PLBs on land in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s official – recycling is cool.
Gadget firm Apple has launched a UK recycling scheme for its iPhones, iPads and other devices.
The technology giant will pay some customers who give back their disused electronic products.
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New research from Mintel reveals that more than one in 10 people are planning to spend more on personal health and fitness clubs in the year ahead.
In 2011, the private health and fitness clubs market was worth £2.7 billion, up 17% between 2006 and 2011, an increase of 2% between 2010 and 2011. Mintel’s latest research questioning Brits about leisure spend in the past 12 months finds private health and fitness clubs are among the leisure activities participants are least likely to have cut back their spending on during the past year.
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The campaign to reduce food waste continues apace.
Government attention is now turning increasingly towards commercial food waste.
To tackle the problem The Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) announced a fund to support demonstration projects which encourage the collection of food waste from businesses and public sector buildings.
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Six of the UK’s top packaging specialists have joined together to demonstrate the latest packaging machinery and materials at an ‘open house’ event from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 February at HayssenSandiacre’s Nottingham factory.
The event, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will offer packaging professionals the opportunity to find out more about complete packing lines from machinery to packaging film.
There are more developments at the Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) where renowned outdoor author and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has joined the board.
A presenter on The Adventure Show on BBC Scotland and a former editor of TGO magazine, he has been co-opted onto the board and will champion a new Independent Outdoor Professional (IOP) membership category.
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New research from Mintel reveals that despite New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, just six in 10 consumers say that they know what they should and shouldn’t eat to lose weight.
Whilst 12% of consumers say they’d like to lose weight, but don’t know how and just 41% say that they know how many calories a day they should consume.
The figures reflect a long-term fall in the number of adults trying to eat a low-fat diet which has dropped from 44% to 37% of consumers between 2008 and 2011.
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The Govern
ment has confirmed it is to scrap hefty fines that punish people for putting rubbish or recycling in the wrong bin.
A consultation has been launched to stop councils imposing ‘bin fines’ of up to £1,000 on households that overfill their bins or accidentally leave their rubbish out on the wrong day.
Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said: “Honest, hard-working people have been punished for innocent mistakes with heavy-handed bin fines for far too long. We are now consigning these bin-fines to the scrap heap of history.
“We want to see people helping us to boost recycling rates by putting out their rubbish correctly, but bullying them with fines is not the way to do it. This consultation will mean that only those causing real problems for their community will get punished.”
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