How The Courtauld Commitment has contributed to reducing waste within the UK grocery sector and how it can be further developed through Courtauld 2025.What the way forward is for dealing with municipal food waste collection. How we can encourage people and organisations to partake in easy, economic and effective collections from source to depot.The potential opportunities offered post-election for the food sustainability industry. Key issues will include how they propose to increase sustainability by moving food up the waste hierarchy: will they alter landfill tax, or introduce landfill bans? Will they take measures to divert food from incineration to anaerobic digestion? Most importantly, will they put forward steps to prevent food waste and could these present opportunities to quell growing usage of food banks where usage levels have risen to an estimated 1 million?The progress of the food waste Anaerobic Digestion industry encompassing obtaining maximum value out of food waste, government strategies going forward and community level projects that look to engage more people into the potential benefits AD has to offer.Moving food waste up the waste hierarchy using alternate ways to deal with it such as The Pig Idea and how the rules and regulations help and hinder efforts to utilise such initiatives.SpeakersTristram Stuart, Author, Campaigner, Food Waste Expert Peter Jones, EunomiaThomas Gill, Genus plcMichael Chesshire, Evergreen GasIlan Adler, UCLMichael Falcolner-Hall, WRAPStephen Smith, Imperial College LondonDavid Rogers, WRAPHarriet Parke, Eunomia