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Defra’s Framework for Sustainable Lifestyles (published October 2011) set out an approach to understanding and influencing behaviour. The framework provides evidence-based insights on the motivations and barriers to action and approaches to influencing behaviour.

Once you have identified which waste stream to target the next step is to “get to know” your audience, understand their issues, and how to target them effectively.

After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan.

This section highlights other cross-cutting drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan. It covers:

• The Compact
• Localism, and
• National Indicators

This section highlights the main environmental drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.

This section highlights the main social drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.

In this section we offer an example plan structure that can be used as a starting template for your own plan. 

After making a strong case for waste prevention in your local authority, it is important to begin developing a plan. 

Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.    

This customisable template is for use to support your reporting to food waste destinations only.

A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.