Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against global food waste. Join us on Wednesday, 29 April 2026.
As we mark our 10th Stop Food Waste Day in 2026, we celebrate our progress and reaffirm our commitment to reducing food waste across all areas of our business, with Stop Food Waste Day continuing to serve as a powerful catalyst for change.
Stop Food Waste Day is a global awareness day dedicated to reducing food waste.
Started in 2017 by Compass Group USA, Stop Food Waste Day is now recognized globally in every corner of the world as we unite to educate, inspire, and ignite change. Our mission is to ignite change regarding the global food waste problem. We do this by drawing attention to the issues, at the same time educating through engaging with society at all levels and sharing practical, creative, and impactful ways we can all change our behavior to reduce food waste.
Since starting out, millions of people have taken the pledge to end food waste, shared tips and hints about how to reduce waste at home and been involved in the global conversation around how we can all do more to reduce our impact.
Let’s make every day a Stop Food Waste Day!
Did you know, 33% of all food produced globally is lost or wasted every single year? And just a quarter of the food wasted globally could be used to feed the 795 million undernourished people in the world.
Food waste and climate change
But food waste is not only a moral issue, it’s a key contributor to climate change too. Wasting food is a waste of the energy to grow, harvest, process and cook and food waste in landfill can cause methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas.
Taking action to Stop Food Waste
The Stop Food Waste campaign assets include posters, social media cards and supporting images for you to use on digital channels, websites, at home or in the office. To help us maximize our reach, please do encourage others in your network to get involved, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:
- Take the Stop Food Waste Day pledge and share it across your personal and professional social media platforms
- Download the social media cards on this page and use them across your social media platforms, adding your own message and always using the hashtag: #StopFoodWasteDay and remembering to tag our accounts:
Twitter: @_stopfoodwasteday_
LinkedIn: @Stop Food Waste Day
Instagram: @stop_food_waste_day
Facebook: @stopfoodwasteday - Download the digital and/or print posters and use them in your communications campaigns, or as materials to support your very own Stop Food Waste Day activities.
CAMPAIGN TOOLKIT
Finally, you can find more useful strategies on stopping food waste from their full campaign toolkit at:https://www.stopfoodwasteday.com/en/get-involved/download-the-toolkit.html
Recipes & Tips
https://www.stopfoodwasteday.com/en/recipes-and-top-tips.html
It all starts at home. At Stop Food Waste Day, we want to make it easy for everyone to reduce food waste by creating meals which give a second life to ingredients that commonly go to waste. So, whether you’re a complete novice or an experienced chef, we’ve scoured every corner of the world to bring you some of the very best recipes and inspiration from leading chefs. Here, at this link, you can find no-waste recipes, a digital cookbook and chef tips.
Delicious taste, no waste!
Reference
Stop Food Waste Day. April 29, 2026. Access on April 28, 2026. Available at: https://www.stopfoodwasteday.com/en/index.html#:~:text=Stop%20Food%20Waste%20Day’s%20mission%20is%20to,are%20due%20to%20food%20loss%20and%20waste
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