Food Waste Action Week 2021. The inaugural Food Waste Action Week will run from Monday 1 to Sunday 7 March 2021 and will bring together organisations from retailers to local authorities restaurants to manufacturers and beyond. Announced by the Governments food waste Tsar Ben Elliot yesterday afternoon the first Action Week is designed to raise awareness of food waste and will take place from 11 May.
WRAP says it will work with a variety of partners to show that wasted food is an issue that affects everyone and the planet. Bad weather processing problems overproduction and unstable markets cause food loss long before it arrives in a grocery store while overbuying poor planning and. Well if we stopped throwing away the 714000 tonnes of potatoes we waste every year in our homes it would do the same for the environment as taking 326000 tonnes of CO2e out of our atmosphere.
Celebrating the success of Food Waste Action Week 2021 The UKs first ever Food Waste Action Week brought together citizens and organisations from across retail manufacturing government and hospitality to demonstrate the impact of wasted food on people and on the planet.
When food is tossed aside so too are opportunities for improved food security economic growth and environmental prosperity. On a national level the US Department of Agriculture USDA and the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA set a goal in 2015 to reduce food waste by half by 2030. Remember i f you cant take part 8-14 March you can run your Waste Week campaign afterwards - just make sure all entries for the Great Busta Bake competition are in by 26 March. 1159512 and registered as a company limited by guarantee in England Wales No.
