The cookbook is designed for home cooks and it aims to ‘inspire’ people from around the world to reduce their food waste. The cookbook encourages chefs to create meals that give a second life to ingredients that commonly go to waste in home kitchens, including stale bread, bruised fruit & vegetables and discarded peels.

The cookbook features submissions from countries including Finland, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg and New Zealand. Compass Group launched Stop Food Waste Day in 2017 to align with its commitment to halve food waste by 2030, which supports its global and UK net zero targets.

Dominic Blakemore, group chief executive of Compass Group PLC, said: “With a third of all food produced globally wasted every year, we are clear about the collective role we must play in driving permanent change across our industry. We’re making good use of technology to understand our food waste footprint and are working in partnership with our clients and suppliers to halve it by 2030.

“Chefs are the real game changers! They’re the people behind many of the great meals that we eat around the world every single day. But they’re also the ones that make reducing food waste enjoyable; through their creativity, innovation and dedication to always reducing, reusing and repurposing.”

For more information on #StopFoodWasteDay, visit here.