Tag: Love Food Hate Waste

‘Love your leftovers: feast smart, waste less’ campaign to save food, money and time this Christmas.

Stuart Mitchell

Christmas, like many celebrations, tends to revolve around sharing meals with friends and family, spreading generosity and joy. A time when people want to ensure plenty of food is on the table. However, there is the unwelcome peril of buying or cooking too much, stealing the fun from Christmas by filling our bins with food we have worked hard to buy and prepare. The millions of tonnes of edible food thrown in the bin, combined with the cost of living, do not make for a very merry Christmas. Food waste…

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Food Waste Action Week – organisations urged to join forces to fight food waste

Stuart Mitchell

Food waste brand Love Food Hate Waste is delighted to announce the first corporate donors for next year’s Food Waste Action Week (Monday 7th to Sunday 13th March), with supermarket Aldi, online supermarket Ocado Retail, food manufacturers Danone and Dunbia and food service provider Sodexo the first to put their names to the campaign. Love Food Hate Waste is keen to involve many more organisations to broaden the impact the Week will have through their customer and membership channels and is encouraging more to donate and put their stamp on…

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Household food waste rising as restrictions relaxed

Stuart Mitchell

The latest UK Food Trends Survey shows that self-reported food waste has rebounded to pre-lockdown levels as restrictions lift, and more food is potentially going to waste in UK homes as life returns to normal. The findings come from Love Food Hate Waste; the campaign delivered by environmental charity WRAP and is a snapshot of the UK’s food behaviours post-lockdown, from the longest-running survey of its kind. Love Food Hate Waste found that during lockdown many more people adopted positive food management behaviours that prevent food from going to waste…

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Love Food Hate Waste inspires 1 in 3 people nationwide to act on food waste

Stuart Mitchell

Recognition for the Love Food Hate Waste campaign has doubled over the last 18 months. According to WRAP’s latest citizen survey, (tracking behaviours and attitudes related to wasted food), 1 in 3 people (31%) now recognise the Love Food Hate Waste logo, compared to roughly 1 in 5 (15%) in November 2018. Furthermore, those people are far more likely to adopt good food management behaviours having heard or seen Love Food Hate Waste messages. This progress is a result of insight-led campaigns targeting specific behaviours that cause food waste. It…

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