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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Rachel Hall

AI tool trial could save equivalent of 1.5m meals in food waste

KitKats and other confectionary
Waste might include a broken KitKat bar or a product with an expiry date that’s too short to sell on to retailers. Photograph: Dominic Favre/EPA

Millions of meals worth of wasted food could be redistributed thanks to an artificial intelligence tool being trialled by companies across the UK, including Nestlé.

The AI tool, which has already generated an 87% reduction in edible food waste at one of the Swiss conglomerate’s factories over its first two-week trial period, is intended to “design out” food waste by providing real-time monitoring, tracking and insights of wasted ingredients and products.

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