Food Waste Action Week 2026
Food Waste Action Week 2026
In March each year we focus the world’s attention on an important but often unseen climate change issue: food waste.
Food Waste Action Week will take place 9-15 March 2026. Convened by Love Food Hate Waste, national and local governments, community groups, NGOs and brands around the world for action on food waste. The week inspires simple, practical action that helps food go further - saving money, time and stress, while protecting the planet.
We’d love you to be part of it.
Why Food Waste Action Week matters
In the UK, 60% of food waste happens in our homes. Each year, households throw away:
- 4.4 million tonnes of edible food
- Worth £17.5 billion
- Creating 16 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
For a family of four, that’s around £1,000 wasted every year.
At a time of rising costs and climate pressure, reducing food waste is one of the fastest, simplest ways to support households and cut emissions - through a few simple changes that give back both to your pocket and our planet.
This year's theme
In 2026, Food Waste Action Week’s theme is Make Your Food Go Fuuuuuuuurther: for your pocket, for our planet.
By preventing food waste, using up leftovers, and recycling anything that can’t be eaten, we can unlock more value from the food we already have by helping it to stretch further.
On each day of Food Waste Action Week, we will give you tips to make your food go further for:
- Monday: For your money
- Tuesday: For your time
- Wednesday: For our planet
- Thursday: For your health
- Friday: For your headspace
Working with all our stakeholders, we are mapping content to these theme days. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
Campaign toolkit
Our campaign toolkit is available at the link below. It includes downloadable campaign assets, vehicle liveries, web banners, press release templates and background webinars.
Other campaigns you'll love
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.
Love Food Hate Waste's recipe for climate action: research, expertise and a love of food to help you save food from the bin.
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.
