One year after the launch of the Pact against food waste, the 25 partner organizations took stock: the initiative, promoted by Too Good To Go, helped to save 212 thousand products, better specify the meaning of the Tmc on 10 million packages arrived on the shelves and sensitized 1.5 million people between employees and consumers reached by webinars, events and communication campaigns. The pact includes companies, the third sector and consumer organizations united by the aim of reducing food waste.
53% of waste occurs at home
Tackling food waste has in fact been identified by Project Drawdown as the # 1 solution to combat climate change and keep temperatures below 2 ° C by the end of the century, limiting the damage caused by climate change to people. and environment. To achieve the ambitious goal, also formulated by the United Nations 2030 Agenda, of halving food waste per capita at the retail and consumer level and reducing food losses throughout the supply chain by 2030, it is necessary to ‘commitment of all the players in the sector, and of the consumers themselves. 53% of food waste in Europe occurs within the home, while 17% in the distribution and retail phase and 19% in the processing phase.
What the Pact provides
The intent of the Pact is therefore to involve organizations, companies and supermarkets with the aim of bringing the issue more and more at the center of the public and private debate, through concrete and awareness-raising actions. Within the Pact, Too Good To Go provides a series of commitments based on five fundamental points: Aware Label, Aware Company, Aware Consumer, Supermarket Against Waste, Factory Against Waste. The companies that have taken part in it have signed at least an awareness raising action (between Aware Company and Aware Consumer) and at least a concrete action (between Aware Label and Supermarket / Factory against Waste), with the aim of positively impacting on the fight against food waste at 360 degrees. In particular, the conscious label invites you to check whether the foods are still consumable after the minimum conservation date (Tmc) thanks to the presence of a distinctive phrase “Often good beyond” and a series of pictograms that advise you to “observe, smell, taste”.
Reporting of the impact
To better measure and report this first year of activity, and on the occasion of the anniversary and the National Food Waste Prevention Day (5 February), the Too Good To Go app publishes the first Impact Report relating to the Pact against Food Waste: an immediate and clear way to make the results already achieved accessible and monitor the areas in which to intervene for a greater impact in 2022.
Thanks to the Pact, Too Good To Go and the member companies – from Danone to NaturaSì, from Sperlari to Unilever – have contributed to saving 368 thousand Magic Boxes (equal to 3,680 quintals of food) and 212 thousand products, specifying better the meaning of the minimum conservation term. on 10 million packages that arrived on the shelves and sensitized 1.5 million people between employees and consumers reached by webinars, events and communication campaigns.