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Food For The Planet
Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Tower Hamlets has completed 20
Every Mouthful Counts toolkit actions:
Establish a Local Food Partnership to help drive action on food, climate and nature
Cut the vehicle emissions from food deliveries
Publish an action plan for tackling the climate and nature emergency
Serve more climate-friendly meals in nurseries and primary schools
Publish and maintain a map of council landholdings
Nominate a staff member to lead on food and climate change
Use planning policy to protect food growing
Increase the amount of land used for community food growing
Increase the amount of land used for local food growing and production
Publish a council-wide food use strategy to minimise food waste according to the food waste hierarchy
Run food waste awareness-raising and reduction campaigns and events
Provide a food waste collection service for households, schools and businesses
Ensure there are opportunities for edible surplus food to be redistributed
Publish a sustainable food procurement policy
Deliver public campaigns to encourage people to adopt a more climate-friendly diet
Support programmes that allow those on low incomes to access nutritious, local and sustainably produced food
Declare a Climate and Nature Emergency
Increase the total amount spent locally in small and independent food businesses
Sign the Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration ahead of COP26 in November 2021
Introduce incentives to cut the climate footprints of businesses in your area to deliver benefits to the local community
