Food Waste Action Week will run from 1 to 7 March 2021, and will aim to “bring together” retailers, local authorities, restaurants and manufactures to tackle food waste.
WRAP said it will work with partners during the week to show that waste food is “an issue that affects everyone”.
The week will also focus on the hospitality and food service sector, looking at what changes they can implement to ensure as little food as possible to wasted.
The charity said it will “reinforce” its previous work in citizen food waste prevention which it said will be a “key focus” for the week.
Marcus Gover, CEO of WRAP, said: “The climate crisis remains one of the biggest and most urgent challenges facing humanity. Wasted food has a significant contribution to climate change, and is something we need to address together. WRAP as the data and research to demonstrate the reality of the issue – what we need is for partners to get this date in the diary, and join us in the Food Waste Action Week activities to make wasting food a thing of the past.”
Roadmap
The announcement follows WRAP’s annual progress report on the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap published on 24 September, which showed memberships surpassing 210.
The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap is an initiative to get businesses to reduce food way by 50% by 2030.
This year more small and medium-sized enterprises have joined, with Joseph Robertson, Stockan’s Oatcakes and Bute Island Foods submitting data, and growing ranks of supporters include businesses such as Veolia, Suez and Biffa.
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