Resources
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
Defra’s Framework for Sustainable Lifestyles (published October 2011) set out an approach to understanding and influencing behaviour. The framework provides evidence-based insights on the motivations and barriers to action and approaches to influencing behaviour.
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Local Authorities
Once you have identified which waste stream to target the next step is to “get to know” your audience, understand their issues, and how to target them effectively.
- Waste management and end markets
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Local Authorities
This section highlights other cross-cutting drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan. It covers:
- The Compact
- Localism, and
- National Indicators
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Re-use & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main environmental drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main social drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
In this section we offer an example plan structure that can be used as a starting template for your own plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Local Authorities
After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan.
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- Local Authorities
Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Water stewardship
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This customisable template is for use to support your reporting to food waste destinations only.
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Hospitality and food service
A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations