This could be the tipping point - the European Parliament is about to vote on whether to halve EU food waste! Click to take action – to email key MEPs, click here http://ow.ly/a4jy309MD9S and to email your local MEPs too, click here: http://ow.ly/CuiC309FRnN This Is Rubbish, the organisation behind the Stop the Rot campaign, is leading a fight against food waste throughout Europe, in collaboration with 50 organisations across 17 countries, including Friends of the Earth and Global Citizen. In January, thanks to our pressure, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee made the landmark decision to support ambitious targets to halve EU food waste by 2030, which are (mainly) farm to fork. These targets will effect the UK, as they come into effect before the UK leaves the EU and even after we leave they’ll be an excellent precedent. This is a huge step forward, and we couldn’t have done this without the colossal support of the 64,000 people and 49 organisations from across 17 countries who’ve called on the EU to halve food waste so far. So thank you for everyone who’s been involved! But the targets proposed by the Environment Committee are voluntary not binding, which means they might not be taken as seriously by some member states, and some of the mountains of food wasted on farms are not currently included within the target. Now it’s the big one – the European Parliament as a whole will be voting on 14th March to decide their position. We need to call on them to build on the great work of the Environment Committee by backing up their targets, but also calling for the targets to be fully farm-to-fork and legally binding! Thanks to our pressure these are now back on the table, and we just need MEPs to get behind them! This could be the tipping point! Together we can end food waste. Take our letter action to write to your MEPs: To email key MEPs, take our action with Global Citizen here: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/set/email-and-tweet-meps-to-halve-food-waste-by-2030/ To email your local MEPs in the UK too, take our action with Friends of the Earth here: https://act.foe.co.uk/act/ask-your-meps-halve-eu-food-waste Keep up the food waste fight! The Stop the Rot team Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisrubbishmovement/ Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/foodwaste