Sustainability can be defined as ‘maintaining ecological balance’; ‘exploiting natural resources without destroying the ecological balance of an area’; able to maintained. It is however such a broad term and means many things to the different sectors of the food and drinks industry. With sustainability installed as a philosophy across a business, it will start to drive a new phase of waste and resource reduction activity.

Therefore, it is important to consider the different aspects of sustainability and how the food and drinks’ industry can rise to meet the challenges it presents, with a proper focus and ensure that it evolves into a mainstream cultural philosophy throughout the industry.

Committed to encouraging the food and drinks’ industry to operate in a more sustainable way, Leatherhead’s brand new conference Innovating for Sustainability, is ideal for all sectors of the industry; it will explore advances in product, processing and packaging technologies and the adoption of new technologies for waste minimisation, including the importance of partnerships and open innovation to maximise resource efficiency and reclaim value from waste streams.