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The third in a series of reports detailing how UK citizens’ food habits, behaviours and attitudes have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Key findings

• Almost four in five UK citizens (79%) undertook additional food management behaviours during lockdown, and these behaviours endured as lockdown eased.
• However, fewer than 30% of us see a link between wasting food and climate change.
• New 'Wasting Food: It's Out of Date' brand to bring to life the devastating environmental cost of wasting food.

This section introduces ways in which to effectively encourage householders to enact waste prevention behaviours.

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.

This section highlights the main environmental drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention 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 report explores the existing evidence about the effectiveness of providing factual information (including content, source and format) on the environmental sustainability of a product, and its impact in influencing consumer (individual and organisational) buying decisions.

Use these checklists to help with food labelling choices. The images and on-pack wording can help reduce food waste for all products.

The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.

These guides take the reader through communicating re-use and the process step-by-step to support the delivery of effective communications.

This guide provides a step by step approach to developing a re-use baseline and using it to monitor and evaluate progress.  

Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.

There are multiple mechanisms available for the exchange and re-use of items. These include face to face exchange through events and online exchange via a number of websites. Local authorities can either deliver these services or support community groups and other external organisations in their delivery of the services.