Europe's action to halve 88 million tonnes of food waste by 2030 is in real danger of being completely blocked! This is an emergency – please take our email action: http://ow.ly/SB3j30g17dL This Is Rubbish - the organisation behind Stop the Rot - has been fighting for the future of food waste in the UK and Europe. There are about 55 million people in food poverty in Europe - and the food wasted throughout the continent could feed them over 9 times over. Globally, if food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest carbon emitter after the US and China. In March, we had a huge victory – the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of farm to fork targets to halve EU food waste by 2030! A huge movement of over 100,000 people and 67 organisations from 20 European countries has so far joined our campaign, and the EU are feeling the pressure. But now we’ve received deeply concerning news that there’s a real chance the European Council could completely block any action to halve EU food waste at all. This would be disastrous. The clock is ticking as the negotiations are currently set to end in November/December - we may have a matter of weeks left. Although the UK has been among countries blocking the EU targets, we know that France and Italy are a lot more progressive on food waste, and could be invaluable allies within the European Council to help turn this situation around. This Is Rubbish have teamed up with Global Citizen to call on the Ministers of the Environment for France and Italy to champion halving EU food waste in the negotiations – this could be our last chance to turn this around, so please take action whether you’re in the UK or any other country around Europe! 1) Take our new email action! https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/set/urgent-call-on-eu-halve-food-waste/ Want to be even more of a food waste warrior? 2) Share our video on facebook, and follow us for more updates on the campaign: https://www.facebook.com/thisisrubbishmovement/videos/1948364822071277/ 3) Take our Twitter action: http://ow.ly/jC0930gFgVn 3) Donate to the campaign: https://www.thisisrubbish.org.uk/donate/ This Is Rubbish has so far run this EU campaign on zero budget completely out of the passion for it – in fact, it is run by one person working voluntarily! We’re trying to win over a whole continent of policy makers to halve the 88 million tonnes of EU food waste, and we’ve made great progress, but this is no small task so we’re now appealing for your help. Anything you can donate, however small, will be immensely helpful! We're still working hard behind the scenes to convince Michael Gove in the UK to support the targets, as well as writing to the European Commission, and collaborating with our campaign supporters around Europe to build pressure on countries around the EU - we'll keep you updated of developments! Whether you’ve taken any of our actions, donated, or supported us in any way - a huge thank you to all you amazing food waste activists! Together we can end food waste, Martin and the This Is Rubbish team Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisrubbishmovement/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/foodwaste