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Food Waste Action Week

Food Waste Action Week

In March each year we focus the world’s attention on an important but often unseen climate change issue: food waste.

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Food Waste Action Week 2025

This year, the UK’s biggest annual food waste reduction campaign will run from 17 –23 March 2025; and our mission is simple - we want to get more and more people across the UK talking about why buying loose fruit and vegetables is better.  

Why? Because we know that having the opportunity to buy loose fruit and vegetables means people can buy only what they need, and less food ends up in the bin.

CALLING ALL PARTNERS

The success of Food Waste Action Week is largely down to the amazing support we receive from our committed partners – retailers, manufacturers, governments, local authorities, NGOs and community organisations – all working together with us, with the aim of reducing household food waste.

This year we’d love to see even more partners getting involved:

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Over the last two years our Food Waste Action Week sponsors have included:

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Participants this year:

  • A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd
  • A&LH Environmental Services Ltd
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • Abundant Borders
  • Action Glen Adventure Park
  • Air Products
  • Ala Park Design, LLC
  • Aldi Stores UK Ltd
  • Anything Goes Lifestyle
  • Ards and North Down Borough Council
  • Avery Berkel
  • Basildon Borough Council
  • Bath & North East Somerset Council
  • BCUHB
  • Bradford on Avon Town Council
  • Brighton & Hove Food Partnersh
  • Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group
  • British Frozen Food Federation
  • Buckinghamshire Council
  • CAG Devon
  • Canolfan Clydau
  • Capitol Students Saw Mill
  • Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
  • Changing Lives Together
  • Chelmsford City Council
  • Chrysalis Not For Profit
  • Christ the King Sixth Forms
  • City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
  • City of Toronto
  • Co-op
  • Co-operative Group
  • Community Treasure Chest CIC
  • Cotgrave community kitchen
  • Cranfield University
  • Croydon climate action
  • Culpeper Community Garden
  • Defra
  • Delia Online
  • Derby City Council
  • Derbyshire Dales District Council
  • Devon County Council
  • Ditchling Quakers
  • Downsview Primary School
  • Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Durham County Council
  • East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub
  • East Riding Leisure
  • Eastleigh Borough Council
  • Eat like a Londoner
  • Eating Better
  • End Food Waste Australia
  • English Provender Company
  • Essex County Council
  • Fair Oak and Horton Heath Parish Council
  • Food Bank Newcastle
  • Food for Life
  • FoodMesh
  • FoodCycle
  • Foodpoint Produce
  • Freegle
  • Frontmeal
  • Fullers Foods International
  • Fylde Council
  • Gander
  • Garden Organic
  • George Bateman & Son Ltd
  • Gleadless Valley Climate Action Network
  • Greening Ringwood
  • Greener Kirkcaldy
  • Green Cuisine Trust
  • Hackney Council
  • Hampshire County Council
  • Handpicked Hotels
  • Havens Community Hub
  • Hempsons
  • Home Farm & Lodge Guest House
  • Houston and Hawkes
  • Hub
  • Hubbub
  • Hubl Logistics Ltd - CoolRun
  • Huntingdonshire Recycles
  • Ibcsd
  • IEMA
  • Incredible Edible Gosport
  • Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD)
  • InSinkErator
  • Isle of Wight Council
  • JarSquad
  • John Lewis Partnership
  • Jigsaw Homes Midlands
  • Kent County Council
  • King’s College Hospital
  • LA PANTERA COMPANY
  • LARAC
  • Layton Methodist Forward Project
  • Leafield Environmental
  • Leeds City Council
  • Lensa Pangan
  • Leicestershire County Council
  • Lidl GB
  • Life skills
  • Liverpool BID Company
  • London Borough of Redbridge
  • Love Design Studio
  • Lumiere London
  • M Covell Ltd
  • MAKE IT HAPPEN BIRKENHEAD
  • Maldon District Council
  • Menston Community Fridge
  • Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority
  • Metro Vancouver Regional District
  • Mint Velvet
  • Moorlands Climate Action
  • MyDiata
  • Nellsar Care Homes
  • Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council
  • Newton Flotman Climate Care
  • Newtown Food Surplus
  • NHS
  • Norfolk County Council - Food Savvy Norfolk
  • North Somerset council
  • North Yorkshire Council
  • Nourish NI
  • Oak and Elm
  • Ocado Retail Ltd
  • Oddbox
  • ODS
  • Office of Circular Economy, Queensland Government
  • Oldham 6th Form College
  • Our Lady of Greens
  • Park Primary School
  • Pendle Borough Council
  • Penguin Random House UK
  • Peterborough City Council
  • Phoenix Rise Lifestyle
  • Porirua City Council
  • Portishead Library
  • Primary Forest School
  • Princes Limited
  • Radcliffe achool
  • Random Cafe CIC
  • RECOUP
  • RECYC-QUÉBEC
  • Refettorio Felix
  • REFUSE CIC
  • Root-and-Branch Out CIC
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Rugby Borough Council
  • Rugby Eco Hub
  • Sagentia Innovation
  • Salford City Council
  • SAX Community Fridge
  • SF Innovations
  • Serco
  • Shepton Mallet Community Fridge
  • SOK Consultancy
  • Sole Bay Waste and Recycling Ltd.
  • South African Food Loss and Waste Initiative, The
  • South Norfolk and Broadland Councils
  • South Staffordshire Council
  • SPAR Group, The
  • St Nicks
  • Steve edwards trading
  • Stevenage Borough Council
  • Stratford-On-Avon District Council
  • Sussex Green living
  • The Really Wild Bognor and Felpham group
  • The Refill Shop of Ikigai
  • The Refillery Ltd
  • Thornton car repairs
  • Three Rivers DC
  • Tigerbrands
  • Tonop foods and confectionery
  • UK Harvest
  • UK Youth Climate Coalition
  • United Fresh
  • Vale of Glamorgan council
  • Valley Organics Workers Cooperative
  • Veran Performance
  • Waitrose & Partners
  • Warwickshire County Council
  • West Sussex County Council
  • Westfield Junior School
  • WIMA GB
  • Wonky Towers Crafts
  • Worcestershire County Council
  • Wyre Council
  • Wyre Forest DC
  • Yeo Valley Production Ltd
  • Young@heart 2021 CIC
  • Ysgol Merllyn Parliament
  • Zero Carbon Guildford
  • Zero waste Victoria
  • ZWILLING

Food Waste Action Week 2024

Food Waste Action Week 2024 encouraged citizens to ‘Choose What You’ll Use’, highlighting the benefits of buying loose fruit and vegetables and inspiring people to do this wherever they could. Buying loose reduces food waste - WRAP research has shown that if all apples, bananas and potatoes were sold loose, we could save 60,000 tonnes of food waste by enabling people to buy closer to their needs.

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Love Food Hate Waste is brought to you by the international climate action NGO, WRAP. WRAP also delivers information, support and resources to help us all recycle more things, more often through Recycle Now and Recycle Week, in September.

Learn more about what we do

Answers to the questions we often receive about food waste, and ways to get in touch with the Love Food Hate Waste team.

Two white men chopping chillis together in the kitchen: one older and grey, one younger and bearded.

Love Food Hate Waste's recipe for climate action: research, expertise and a love of food to help you save food from the bin.

A black family: a mother, grown up daughter and two sons, cook a meal together in the kitchen, laughing and smiling

Let's be realistic: sometimes we are so busy that thinking about how to save food at home often falls to the bottom of our list. Instead of trying to overhaul your food habits in one day, let's take action together in bite-sized chunks.

Farmer smiling holding a cabbage and parsnips

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