Compass marks ninth annual Stop Food Waste Day

Stop Food Waste Day is the world's largest global day of action dedicated to combating food waste and raising awareness about this critical issue.

Photo: Compass Group teams in Hong Kong, joining forces with Feeding Hong Kong to tackle food waste and support those in need.

Today (30 April) marks Stop Food Waste Day 2025, a global initiative aimed at raising awareness and inspiring action against food waste. Compass Group has proudly led this important movement since 2017.

This year, Compass and its teams worldwide are uniting clients, colleagues, suppliers, and charity partners from around 30 countries. Through consumer education, campaigns, menu planning, supplier collaboration, and more, Stop Food Waste Day serves as a powerful platform to engage and educate.

Compass chefs are using Stop Food Waste Day as an opportunity to share practical, creative and impactful advice, both for other chefs and the public to learn from.

Highlights from this year’s event include:

• Bringing together some of Compass' brightest culinary minds globally to share their favourite food waste reduction recipes, tips, and tricks through videos on social media. These chefs, known as Stop Food Waste Day Social Ambassadors, include representatives from Australia, Canada, India, the US and the UK.
• Earlier this month, Compass USA celebrated Stop Food Waste Day in New York City in partnership with Food Tank. This event gathered experts, food waste warriors, and innovators to advance the movement and explore actionable solutions.
• Chef Kory Dipucchio from Compass Canada appeared as a special guest on the No Bad Food podcast and CHCH-TV Live to discuss Stop Food Waste Day and share creative uses for scraps and leftovers.
• Food waste-focused suppliers were invited to its global headquarters in Chertsey, UK, where specially created food waste reduction menus were served to colleagues.

Food waste poses one of the key environmental challenges to the food service industry. Alongside this initiative, Compass continues to implement various strategies to reduce food waste across its operations, including innovative food management systems and partnerships with local communities.

Compass is committed to working together to make a difference and invites everyone to join in with Stop Food Waste Day to educate, inspire and ignite change:

1. Download the toolkit and take the pledge at www.stopfoodwasteday.com
2. Join the global conversation on social media with #StopFoodWasteDay

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Notes to editors

Started in 2017 by Compass Group, Stop Food Waste Day is now recognised globally in every corner of the world as we unite to educate, inspire, and ignite change.

Taking place on the last Wednesday of April each year, our mission is to ignite change regarding the global food waste problem. We do this by drawing attention to the issues, at the same time educating through engaging with society at all levels and sharing practical, creative, and impactful ways we can all change our behaviour to reduce food waste.

We recognise that food waste is not only a moral issue, but a key contributor to climate change too. Wasting food is a waste of the energy to grow, harvest, process and cook, and food waste in landfill can cause methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas.