Buy loose fruit and veg to cut household food waste – Food Waste Action Week
Published: Friday, March 22, 2024
- We’re encouraging residents to buy unpackaged fruit and veg to cut down on food waste during Food Waste Action Week.
- All residents will benefit from new food waste collections in 2024.
- More than 80,000 households will receive the new service in June.
- Food waste collections will be rolled out to flats by the end of the year.
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We are marking Food Waste Action Week, which runs from 18 to 24 March, by encouraging residents to choose unpackaged fruit and veg.
New data published as part of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign highlights that 8.2 million shopping baskets of fruit and vegetables are wasted every year in our homes, because we’ve bought more than we can use in time.
Love Food Hate Waste is encouraging people to choose what they’ll use and only buy what they need.
Get involved with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign
Food waste collections
Here in Wandsworth, we will shortly be introducing food waste collections, rolling this out in two phases.
- All households with enough space at the front of their property for a food waste caddy, for example a front garden or driveway, will receive the service in June.
- Residents will get their food waste caddies delivered between 8 April and 7 June. Collections will start from the week beginning 10 June, on collection day.
- Flats will get the service later in the year.