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Formerly features editor at leading trade magazine The Grocer, Megan Tatum is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in food, health, technology and the environment. In 2019, she won BSME Campaign of the Year for the two-year project Waste Not Want Not, which successfully helped lobby government for an additional £15 million in funding to fight food waste. 

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    • Food waste
    • Environment & ethics

    A culture war on food waste

    China has launched a major new attack on food waste using the power of influencers on public perception – but are there lessons for the UK in our own food waste battle?

    By Megan Tatum - 5th February 2021

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    • Technology
    • Ethical business

    Pipe dreams

    What if your groceries and parcels arrived via a vast underground network of pipes, hurtling toward you on a magnetic wave? Megan Tatum investigates the green deliveries of the future.

    By Megan Tatum - 20th December 2020

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    • Environment & ethics
    • Biodiversity
    • Ethical business

    Battle of the oils

    The palm oil industry is notorious for causing deforestation, but would switching to coconut be a better alternative? Megan Tatum reports from Malaysia.

    By Megan Tatum - 28th October 2020

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    • Packaging
    • Plastic

    Did Covid-19 kill the zero waste shop?

    Social distancing and the need for greater hygiene have forced zero-waste shops to rethink their whole concept. But will our trust in unpackaged items return post-Covid?

    By Megan Tatum - 25th June 2020

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    • Dairy
    • Farming
    • Price

    Spilt milk: Covid-19 and dairy

    Covid-19 has sent milk prices tumbling and caused public shock at wasted milk, but the crisis in dairy is much more long-term.

    By Megan Tatum - 26th April 2020

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    • Plant-based
    • Dairy
    • Climate change

    New milk on the block

    Manufacturers say it’s better for our health and better for the planet, but how does pea milk stack up against the alternatives?

    By Megan Tatum - 3rd April 2020

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    Wanted: Female leaders

    For International Women’s Day, social advocate and environmentalist Jennie Stephens tells Anna Turns why diverse leadership can unlock social and climate justice.

    By Anna Turns - 7th March 2021

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    • Ethical business
    • Climate change
    • Biodiversity

    UK banks linked to deforestation, report finds

    Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are among UK banks found to be linked to deforestation in Brazil as spotlight on unethical finance grows.

    By Jack Thompson - 4th March 2021

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    • Food waste
    • Technology

    Best apps to help you cut food waste

    From community food sharing or family meal planning to buying a ‘Magic Bag’ of leftover food from your favourite café – read our round-up of the best food waste apps and resources.

    By Becky Blench - 4th March 2021

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    • News from the farm
    • Ethical business

    'When we whistle, you jump'

    As we became employee owned and I renounced control, protection of suppliers was written into our founding documents; last month, this was crystalised into a new Supplier Charter.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 4th March 2021

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    • Food waste
    • Climate change

    Confessions of a kitchen bin

    Environmental journalist Anna Turns weighed her household waste after a week before setting a mission to reduce it with the help of tips and tricks from food waste experts.

    By Anna Turns - 2nd March 2021

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    • Biodiversity
    • Climate change
    • Environment & ethics

    Caterpillars and tackling the biodiversity crisis

    A caterpillar spotted while gleaning a field for leftover crops sparked a conversation around the connection between species, writes Chantelle Norton.

    By Chantelle Norton - 2nd March 2021

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