EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub

November 2022

Dear readers,

Welcome to the November edition of the Hub’s newsletter, bringing you the latest news and resources in food loss and waste prevention.

November was a busy month, with COP 27 taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where the new ‘123 Pledge’ was launched to accelerate action to reduce food loss and waste worldwide. The Pledge challenges governments, businesses, chefs and other important actors in the food system to commit to concrete steps that will make reducing food loss and waste a part of their action agendas on greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about the 123 Pledge here.

In other news, join the FOODRUS webinar on 5 December to learn how to monitor and report on food losses and waste; learn more about pre- and after-slaughter losses in Sweden; design an effective consumer information campaign with EUFIC’s toolkit and get involved in WRAP’s annual Food Waste Action Week in 2023.

Happy reading!

News

WRAP's Food Waste Action Week 2023 is coming!

Food Waste Action Week 2023 will take place on 6-12 March. If you would be interested in supporting the week and amplifying the key messages, please read on to know how.

Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark participates in International Stop Wasting Food Lunch

The event is at its 4th edition and will be hosted by the German Embassy in Denmark. Every year, a new Embassy takes the baton and organizes a Stop Wasting Food dinner or lunch, with a menu prepared from good, surplus food.

Upcoming events

FOODRUS online workshop: How to monitor and report food loss and waste?

The online workshop taking place on 5 December (15:00-17:00 CET) is the first event part of a series organised by the EU-funded FOODRUS project.

Resources (highlights)

Circular, united and sustainable ecosystem at the Rungis International Market, Paris

The aim of the project is to develop innovative solutions to reduce food waste the second largest wholesale food market in the world.

Rabobank: Measuring Food Waste Performance

Rabobank's in-depth analysis of leading grocery retailers in Europe, the US, and Asia, reveals that the hidden costs of food waste are enormous, even at the best-performing chains.

Food losses at the slaughter of cattle and pigs in Sweden

The report presents how Swedish slaughter plants utilize by-products from pigs and cattle, focusing on edible by-products and the extent to which they are valorised as animal feed or for biogas production.

Pre-slaughter losses of pork, beef and milk on the farms in Sweden

The report presents how much meat was lost due to pig and cattle mortality, while also looking at milk losses at farm level, during 2020 in Sweden.

EUFIC's toolkit on how to design an effective information-based food waste campaign

This toolkit represents a brief how-to-guide on designing and reporting on information-based food waste reduction interventions.

Agro2Circular EU Project

Agro2Circular is an EU Green Deal project proposing innovative valorisation routes to upcycle agri-food waste and develop a circular economy.

This is the monthly newsletter of the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub, incorporating information on the latest activities of its members. The newsletter is created and disseminated by the Platform’s Secretariat, within the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety.

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