Over 60 charities, businesses and organisations have joined forces for this year’s Waste Less, Live More Week that will run from today (16 September) until 22 September.
The theme of this year’s week-long event, organised by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, is ‘Better Food For All’ and looks at how food can be produced and consumed in ways that are better for our health, the environment and society.
According to Keep Britain Tidy, the week is also an ‘opportunity’ to look at how to improve issues such as increasing food poverty, increasing reliance of families on food banks for sustenance and the fact that a third of all food produced globally is currently wasted.
Events
Partners for this year’s Waste Less, Live More Week include clothing recycling charity TRAID, the ‘Feeding the 5,000’ campaign and the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN).
Together, they, alongside other organisations, will organise events and activities to demonstrate how people can improve their wellbeing while ‘learning about and supporting the environment’; activities include food foraging walks, ‘Waste Less, Save More, Big Free Lunch’ events and workshops.
The week’s ‘main’ event will be the Better Food For All conference on Wednesday (18 September) at the London Resource Centre, with speakers including Tesco’s Head of Food Waste Reduction Mark Little and Senior Food Policy Advisor of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) Duncan Williamson.
‘Tackling issues together’
Keep Britain Tidy has also opened the Better Food For All Challenge to the public, ‘as part of efforts to encourage individuals to think about the food they buy and consume’.
Over the next seven days, people are being encouraged to participate in a daily challenge, including ‘Meat-free Monday’, ‘Waste less Wednesday’ and ‘Share something Saturday’.
Speaking of the campaign, Chief Executive of Keep Britain Tidy, Phil Barton, said: “Waste Less, Live More is an approach that reflects how environmental and social issues are linked and how tackling these issues together is a far more effective solution. It’s all about recognising that what is good for the environment is good for us and working towards a future where people understand and actively care for one another and the environment.”
Find out more about Waste Less, Live More Week.
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