contamination from food residue. By planning lunches in advance and using up items in your fridge you can massively reduce the amount of packaging you use while saving money by cutting down on food waste – in the UK we could save £58 million a day just by making our own lunches.iv If you do buy lunch on the go, don’t be shy – take along your own container to your favourite lunch spot. We’d encourage anyone wanting to get involved in the campaign to visit the #FoodSavvy website and we’d love more businesses to take on the challenge too – just register your interest on the Hubbub website.” The #FoodSavvy Lunch Club is part of a wider #FoodSavvy initiative which is designed to tackle food waste and launched in September 2018. For more information on the #FoodSavvy campaign, visit the #FoodSavvy website at: https://www.foodsavvy.org.uk Ends For more information please contact the Hubbub team at Barley Communications: Phoebe Campbell phoebe.campbell@barleycommunications.co.uk 07725 178044 Pippa Henderson pippa.henderson@barleycommunications.co.uk 07453 523796 Nicola Ennis nicola.ennis@barleycommunications.co.uk 07837 201085 Notes to editors Polling of 1,254 full and part time UK workers by Censuswide in March 2019. About Hubbub Hubbub is a charity which explores innovative ways to interest mainstream consumers in important sustainability issues, through different ‘hubs’ of activity: Food; Fashion; Homes; Neighbourhoods; Sport and Leisure. Hubbub’s previous campaigns have included #SquareMileChallenge, the UK’s first large scale solution to coffee cup recycling, #GiftABundle to get pre-loved baby clothes back into circulation and #PumpkinRescue to encourage more people to eat the carvings from their Halloween Pumpkins. www.hubbub.org.uk About #FoodSavvy Launched in September 2018, #FoodSavvy is a collaboration between Hubbub and Norfolk and Suffolk councils and is a campaign that aims to take significant steps towards cutting food waste across both counties. The initial stage will run for two years and then Food Savvy’s most successful elements will be scaled up to meet the seven-year target of reducing food waste by 20% by 2025 in line with national framework, the Courtauld Commitment and the global Sustainable Development Goals. Elements of #FoodSavvy such as the Lunch Club campaign are being launched on a national scale.
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