EU LEAK OF FOOD WASTE TARGETS

🍎 🥕 The European Commission's proposals for legally binding food waste reduction targets have been leaked - and they are pitifully unambitious. The proposals are for a 30% reduction in household/retail/catering food waste, a 10% reduction in manufacturing food waste by 2030 - with no targets at all for primary production food waste.

By setting a target lower than 50% reduction, the Commission is effectively planning to fail to meet Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030. By excluding primary production food waste completely, and proposing a pitifully low target of 10% reduction for manufacturing, the Commission has effectively given businesses a free pass to continue wasting food.

Next step is for European Parliament and Council to come up with their positions, before three-way negotiation to finalise. We need to fight tooth and nail for the European Parliament and Council to urgently propose a 50% farm to fork reduction in food waste, so the EU can meet Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.

If you're from an organisation which operates in the EU, and would like to join 52+ orgs in backing 50% farm to fork targets, please see our joint-statement/sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eq4AEfMb

Read more, with some great quotes from EEB: https://lnkd.in/eECn5mb6

By Martin Bowman

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