Demonstrate progress made toward reducing food loss and waste.



Numerous food waste pacts and industry-facing initiatives devoted to action on food waste have demonstrated impressive progress over the past year: 

• Companies within WRI’s 10x20x30 initiative have continued to demonstrate progress toward reducing food loss and waste. 75 percent of the 248 10x20x30 companies have set a public food loss and waste base year to measure progress against, and 56 percent have measured and publicly reported multiple years of food loss and waste data. The average reduction in food loss and waste among 10x20x30 member companies is 15.4 percent

• The Australian Food Waste Pact reported a 13 percent in food waste by its 37 signatories compared to a 2022 base year, resulting in 16,000 tons of prevented waste and saving companies approximately AUD 57 million as a result. Pact members have also repurposed 982,000 tons of “food not sold,” distributing it to food donations and upcycling it into other products. 

• Retailers on the West Coast of the United States, including Walmart, Kroger, Aldi, and more, have reduced unsold food rates by 30 percent since 2019—the largest reduction ever recorded. This analysis comes from the Pacific Coast FoodWaste Commitment, a public-private partnership focused on reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030 along the West Coast of the United States, and the U.S. Food Waste Pact, the national voluntary agreement for food businesses focused on reducing food waste through precompetitive collaboration and data sharing. The analysis also establishes national baselines for food waste generation at retail and corporate foodservice businesses—the first datasets of their kind—which will be used to track future progress.

 • The International Food Waste Coalition (IFWC), a coalition of companies within Europe’s hospitality and food sector, announced that contract catering companies within the coalition had collectively reduced food loss and waste by 25 percent within their operations over the past five years. This puts IFWC members on track to achieve their collective food loss and waste reduction target by 50 percent by 2030. 

• Food Waste Free United, a Dutch consortium of 110 stakeholders, announced a 20 percent reduction of food loss and waste across the Netherlands and a reduction of 35 percent in food waste at the retail level.

 • As of 2024, over 400 businesses within the United Kingdom have committed to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, through which companies adopt SDG 12.3 and a Target-Measure-Act approach to food waste reduction. 

• The Consumer Goods Forum, The Waste and ResourcesAction Programme (WRAP), and WRI announced a joint reporting deadline for companies to share their food loss and waste data, thus simplifying the data reporting process for companies and facilitating easier sharing of food loss and waste data. This builds on The Consumer Goods Forum’s 2023 release of the first baseline assessment forthe 21 manufacturers and retailers within its Coalition ofAction on Food Waste

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