We need your help! Join our new movement by signing up here (takes 30 seconds) and check out our launch in the Big Issue.

We’ve come together with nearly 40 organisations, including Greenpeace, Feeding Britain, Friends of the Earth, and IFAN (a network of over 500 independent food banks) to launch a new campaign to tackle the root causes of food waste and poverty and we need your help to make this as powerful as possible.

Over a quarter of a million of you have helped us challenge supermarkets to take action on food waste. But despite promises, most businesses are still stubbornly keeping their food waste secret and making minimal progress. Enough is enough – we need the government to step in and regulate.

Meanwhile, in the past decade hunger in the UK has skyrocketed. Volunteers and charities have redistributed food that would have been wasted to those in need – I used to save food to cook in a homeless hostel. But an increasing number of us are realising this cannot be a long-term solution.

Food shouldn’t be wasted in the first place. And nobody should have to rely on food banks in the sixth richest country in the world.

That’s why we’ve launched our new campaign to design food waste and poverty out of the system – check out our launch in the Big Issue!

Over the coming months, we’re going to share campaign actions calling for real change – from regulating businesses to stop waste, to strengthening social safety nets so everyone can afford to eat, to creating a more equal society and guaranteeing a right to food in law.

Want to get more involved?

Join the movement via the form on this link (takes 30 seconds)

Via this link you can also explore more about the campaign, including our Declaration, Toolkit for Change, and policy briefs. If you’re from an organisation that would like to support our Declaration, please add your organisation’s name here.

We want to thank everyone who took part in our survey last year, for helping us develop this campaign. We can’t do this without you.

Over and sprout,

Martin, Matt and the This Is Rubbish team

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