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Sustainability and environment

Sustainability and environment

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Our food policy

Shropshire school meals service is committed to sourcing raw materials for its products that are:

  • high quality
  • conform to government guidelines
  • local wherever possible
  • environmentally sensitive.

To ensure our service maintains an effective environmental ethos we are carrying out a number of things to reduce the impact of the service on the environment.

In addition, as our catering and cleaning service purchases in excess of £5,000,000 in raw materials and employs around 1500 people, we are looking at ways that could improve the economic development within the county wherever possible.

We are currently working with a county wide group to find ways to introduce more local produce into our meals.

The group is made up from:

  • Shropshire School Meals Service
  • Shropshire County Council Sustainability Unit
  • The NFU
  • Shropshire Rural Hub
  • Advantage West Midlands
  • DEFRA
  • Heart of England Fine Foods
  • Ruralscapes
  • Regional Farmers Markets
  • The Soil Association

For more information on local produce and recycling please see the useful websites section on this page.

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