Expressing support for the recognition of September 29, 2025, as "International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste".
This House resolution expresses support for recognizing September 29, 2025, as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. It highlights the scale and consequences of food waste—economic losses, hunger and malnutrition, and climate impacts from methane emissions in landfills—and links these issues to broader policy goals. The measure references the United States’ stated objective to halve food loss and waste by 2030 and points to the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (June 2024) as a roadmap with concrete goals for government partners, retailers, and consumers. As a non-binding, symbolic resolution, its main effect is to raise awareness and encourage action rather than to create new legal requirements.
Key Points
- 1The resolution expresses formal support for recognizing September 29, 2025, as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.
- 2It cites sobering statistics on food waste, hunger, and malnutrition to illustrate the stakes, including the global impact on greenhouse gas emissions and the role of methane from decomposing food in landfills.
- 3It emphasizes that reducing food loss and waste is a climate solution with potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve food security.
- 4It references the U.S. commitment to halving food loss and waste by 2030, as outlined in the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics (June 2024), and notes goals for partners, retailers, and consumers to prevent waste, promote recycling, reduce emissions, save money, and support healthier communities.
- 5It underscores the importance of implementing food waste prevention methods as part of the broader strategy to address climate change and food insecurity.