Organiser's description (via the Centre for Food Policy):
Speaker: Carrie Bradshaw, University of Leeds
Dr Carrie Bradshaw, Associate Professor of Law, University of Leeds, will provide a wide-ranging overview of food waste law and regulation in the UK. She will cover her evaluation of voluntary measures administered by WRAP and the critical role of supply chain regulation. She will also outline legislative options that are ‘on the horizon’ and could be considered for the food strategy currently being developed by the UK government. These options include mandatory food waste reporting; date labelling and packaging; and variable waste charging. As an example of potentially unwelcome legislative interventions to prevent food waste, Carrie will conclude with novel findings from her ongoing research on Good Samaritan laws.
The talk will be followed by an online Q&A session.
Carrie is an environmental lawyer, with particular interest in waste, climate change (especially mitigation) and environmental liability, together with the relationship between environmental law, tortious liability and corporate responsibility. Her current research examines food waste as a distinct legal and policy problem. As part of this, she was an ESRC-funded Parliamentary Academic Fellow, seconded to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and commissioned to write a major report [PDF] on food waste. She has advised several government, business and third sector organisations on food waste law and policy, provided oral and written evidence to Parliament, and personally briefed several Parliamentarians. She is an editor of the Environmental Law Review.
