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Food For The Planet
Cherwell & Oxford & South Oxfordshire & Vale of White Horse & West Oxfordshire
Good Food Oxfordshire has completed 17
Every Mouthful Counts toolkit actions:
Provide a food waste collection service for households, schools and businesses
13750 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
Run food waste awareness-raising and reduction campaigns and events
100 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
Deliver public campaigns to encourage people to adopt a more climate-friendly diet
9 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
Support community composting
2.58 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
Sign the Planet Pledge for council venues, for food to staff and at meetings and events
35 kilogrammes of CO2 saved per year
Join Planning for the Planet
Declare a Climate and Nature Emergency
Establish a Local Food Partnership to help drive action on food, climate and nature
Publish an action plan for tackling the climate and nature emergency
Nominate a staff member to lead on food and climate change
Publish and maintain a map of council landholdings
Use planning policy to protect food growing
Provide routes for independent, and climate and nature positive businesses to supply into council procurement contracts
Support programmes that allow those on low incomes to access nutritious, local and sustainably produced food
Promote local climate and nature friendly food businesses to the public
Adopt an economic strategy which includes supporting a local food economy
Publish a council-wide food use strategy to minimise food waste according to the food waste hierarchy
