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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.

Bag of potatoes

Food Waste Action Week 2025

This year, Max La Manna shines a light on how much food is thrown away when it is bought packaged.

the UK’s biggest annual food waste reduction campaign’s mission was 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.

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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