International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
September 29 · Level 9 · #359 of 2238
This United Nations observance focuses on food lost before it reaches consumers or discarded later. Saving that food also protects the water, land, energy and human effort used to produce it.
How it is celebrated: organizations run awareness campaigns, discussions and cooking sessions about making better use of food. Activities cover storage, shopping plans and redistribution of edible surplus to people who can use it.
Food loss and food waste describe different parts of the journey. Loss occurs before retail, while waste happens in shops, food service businesses and households.