Corporate Reporting on Food Waste by UK Seafood Companies: Literature Review and an Assessment of Current Practices

Over 10% of the world’s population is undernourished, yet 1/3 all food produced each year lost or wasted. Such a level inefficiency in global system has significant economic, social, and environmental impact which elicited calls for urgent action. This paper responds to this call by developing an interdisciplinary framework focusing on legal, regulatory, accounting, reporting frameworks improve prevention reduction loss waste (FLW). Mobilising literature review, advances three-pronged suggestion tackling FLW UK seafood companies: development technological solutions form sensors; enactment comprehensive legal regulatory template companies; finally, accounting standards that mandate beyond current Food Waste Accounting Reporting Standard Water Resources Institute (WRI), modelled voluntary compliance.