The 2024 edition of the European week for waste reduction
The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) is the largest Europe-wide initiative promoting awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management during a single week....
Hungarian presidency prioritizes reducing food waste
Hungary is committed to significantly reducing food waste at every level of the supply chain, said István Nagy, Hungarian Minister...
Households are wasting more home cooked meals
The years-long downward trend in food waste has been broken, according to the latest research from the Wasteless programme. The...
Mátra, camp, fresh air and homemade mint-lemon balm syrup – sounds great, doesn’t it?
The Nébih Education Program team held an educational program for children at the Mátra Sástó Camping in a true camp...
Towards Halving Food Waste in Europe Conference in the Netherlands
The partners of the FOODRUS and CO-FRESH projects held their final events in Brussels this week, exploring and discussing their...
Together for Sustainability – Green National Meeting
The partners of the FOODRUS and CO-FRESH projects held their final events in Brussels this week, exploring and discussing their...
FOODRUS Final Event: Revealing Innovation, Collaboration, and Sustainable Solutions for Future Food Systems
The partners of the FOODRUS and CO-FRESH projects held their final events in Brussels this week, exploring and discussing their...
Zero Waste Cooking Workshop
Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary with Project Wasteless belongs to the National Food Chain Safety Office organised a conference to...
Exploring Solutions: Conference on Mitigating Food Waste in the Hospitality Industry
Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary with Project Wasteless belongs to the National Food Chain Safety Office organised a conference to...
Professional workshop on food waste reduction in the hospitality and food services sector
The EU-funded Hungarian SMP-FOOD-2022-FoodWaste-NCA project recently organised a workshop on measuring and reducing food waste in the catering sector, involving...
Fighting food waste through conscious refrigeration in Hungary
Project Wasteless has launched a refrigeration guide to help consumers store food safely and sustainably. To mark the publication, readers...
Significant move towards sustainability: waste-less living is rising in Hungary
Project Wasteless has measured the amount of Hungarian household food waste in 2022. The data show a reduction and a...
Drawing competition have showed: children learned respect for food from their grandparents
The annual drawing competition of Project Wasteless “Granny Says” revealed that children learn plenty waste reduction practices from their grandparents. Best...
Food waste prevention tips from Fruzsi Viszkok and Tamás Széll
Food waste is one of the most significant sustainability issues, raising not only environmental but also moral and economic questions....
Second Life for Bread: Zero Waste Recipe Book published in Hungarian
Bakery products rank as the third most wasted food category in Hungarian households, making it a top priority to encourage...
Interactive Adventure Tour at Pannon University
Pannon University organized the “Earth – Water – Air” interactive adventure tour in honor of Jane Goodall’s visit, where elementary...
Wasteless drawing competition: Granny Says
Food is a strong family bond in Hungarian housholds, which the Project Wasteless utilizes by announcing a drawing contest this...
LIFE AWARDS 2023 I Support Project Wasteless with your vote!
The European Commission recognizes and rewards the most innovative, inspiring, and effective projects supported by the LIFE Framework Programme every...
Easter Greening – special contest in Hungary for Easter
This Easter, the Project Wasteless, the national food waste prevention programme of Hungary is launching its Easter Greening competition again....
Wasteless Valentine – downloadable greeting cards
Did you know that fruits and vegetables are among the most wasted food stuffs? They often end up in the...
Best of year 2022 – Project Wasteless edition
We collected 7+1 moments from 2022 which were important to us for some reason. Enjoy the gallery with our favourite...
Hungarians throw away less food than the EU average
Eurostat’s latest report is available, which shows that almost 57 million tonnes of food (127 kg per capita) is...
FOODRUS project consortium meeting
Project Wasteless’ visit at Univeresity of Deusto in Bilbao Researchers from the European project FOODRUS, which aims to develop an...
Street exhibition against food waste
We opened a street exhibition of artworks on the theme of food waste on 30 August 2022 in the centre...
The heroes were choosen by the Hungarian Lidl and Wasteless
Lidl Hungary’s educational programme, with the professional support of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih), drew the attention...
Wasteless is launching a drawing competition
The Nébih Education Programme has had a successful school year, launching its first national ambassador programme for the 2021/2022 school...
2022 Sustainability Week – „Green Spoon” Recipe Contest
The team of Nébih’s Educational Programme was invited to the professional jury of the contest organised for 2022 Sustainability Week. The aim...
You also have responsibility!
Roundtable on sustainable consumption at Gárdonyi High School in Érd A sustainability event organised by the Municipality of...
Wasteless Easter competition
Hungarian households waste 300 000 tonnes of food every year, enough to feed half a million people for a...
Sustainability Theme Week
Schoolchildren and their teachers from the Carpathian Basin can participate in the Sustainability Theme Week programmes, which will be...
Catering and Sustainability Conference
The Catering and Sustainability conference was organized on March 3, 2022 at Hungexpo, organized by the National Association of...
Wasteless Christmas
According to the data food waste generated by the Hungarian households was estimated to be 65.5 kg per capita...
With the power of community against food waste
Wasteless, Nebih’s food waste prevention programme, turned five in 2021. The celebration was scheduled for 29 September, for the...
Compost festival 2021
This year, Wasteless is joining Galgamenti Népfőiskola and Humusz Szövetség as a co-organiser of the Compost Festival. The call,...
Wasteless is on TEDxDanubia Countdown
Wasteless as an exhibitor participated in TEDxDanubia Countdown which took place in Vígszínház in Budapest, on 20 September 2021....
Wasteless at Campus Festival
Between 21th and 24th of July, the National Food Chain Safety Office took part as an exhibitor at the...
Team Wasteless in a scientific conference
This year, from the 23th to 25th of June, the International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management was organised...
Wasteless: virtual lesson in ‘Fészek’ Waldorf School, Solymár
Within the framework of Sustainability Thematic Week*, the students of 12th grade of Fészek Waldorf Iskola, Gimnázium és Alapfokú...
Diversified school gardens – Preservation of cultural traditions and natural values
School gardens, dating back many centuries in Hungary, are one of the most complex tools of education for sustainable...
The wrapped truth: Nébih Round table about single-use plastic packaging
The reduction of single-use plastic packaging was the subject of the 6th Roundtable of the National Food Chain Safety...
FOODRUS: NFCSO’s new H2020 project partnership to prevent food losses and waste
An innovative collaborative circular food system to reduce food waste and losses in the agri-food chain One of the innovative...
New Hungarian data: Food waste decreased in households by 4 percent
On the occasion of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste the National Food Chain Safety Office...
Food stockpiling giude for consumers
The Wasteless programme published a food stockpiling guide for consumers, in relation to the pandemic situation. The guide gives hints...
Which habits should be targeted for food waste reduction? – New research in the field
The research team of the Wasteless programme published a study which aimed to explore behavioural patterns behind household food waste...
Donation of surplus food: Half a ton of food have been saved from COVID food reserves
The COVID-19 epidemic has been resulted in the hoarding of food reserves in many households. For this reason the...
New website for educational materials
The National Food Chain Safety Office’s educational materials have been collected on a new website, available at: nebihoktatas.hu. On this...
Drawing contest for school children about food waste prevention
Due to measures taken to restrict the epidemic, children are not allowed to attend schools, thus the classic school...
Rimini – no remain
The team Wasteless was invited by EASME to exhibit at Ecomondo, the largest Western European green technology expo of...
Refreshed in Barcelona
On the 10th of May, 2019 the Team Wasteless participated at the Conference of Refresh – one of the...
Food waste experts in Berlin
On 13th of June, 2019 the Team Wasteless travelled to Berlin in order to participate at the REFOWAS: Food Waste...
Team Wasteless in Heraklion 2019 conference
Between the 26th and 28th of June 2019, Team Wasteless participated in the Heraklion conference, Greece, presenting the results...
Wasteless in Prague
Food waste related environmental, economic and social issues had been discussed by industry, retail, catering, government, and NGO representatives...
Wasteless introduction at 28th Economic Forum, Krynica
Wasteless had the opportunity to introduce the food waste situation in Hungary and give a speech on the topic,...
NFCSO Summer camp in Tata
Our last camp experience was gained within the ‘NFCSO family’, as we had the possibility to participate in the...
Wasteless lesson in the Great Hungarian Plain
On a hot early summer day Team Wasteless conquered a small town in the Great Hungarian Plain. Although...
NFCSO Wasteless Summer camp – report
Between 18th and 24th of June 2018, a one week thematic summer camp was organized by NFCSO’s programme, Wasteless....
Student’s Book of Wasteless on food waste prevention now in every primary school
The awareness-raising Student’s Book of Wasteless was published in electronic form in Spring 2018, with the aim of introducing...
Wasteless before the summer break
The last Wasteless lessons of this semester were held on 28 May in the Medgyessy Ferenc German Nationality Elementary...
Wasteless lessons on Sustainibility Week again
In the frame of the Sustainibility Week, experts of NFCSO visited Molnár Ferenc Bilingual Primary School again in the...
Team Wasteless on Sustainibility Week
On 23th of April we gave a playful lesson again within the scope of the project Wasteless. It was...
VI. Food Law Conference
The 6th Conference on Food Law was held on October 18-20, 2017 in Balatonfüred. On the three-day event, visitors could...
Awareness drawing on the 4th ECO-Island
Fourth time this year the village house of Szigetmonostor was open for the interested children in the frame of the...
Wasteless – now for children as well
Mr Róbert Zsigó, Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision presented the complex educational-training programme of NFCSO on a press...
Students against food wastage
The project Wasteless of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NFCSO) handles the awareness-raising of students in a special way...
Round table – where no food waste remained
The subject of the first Round table discussion – organized by NFCSO – was reducing food waste, where besides distributors...
Pyramid, coffee, truck – What is the connection?
Around 46.5 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the households of the EU. It might be quite difficult...
Science Mosaic in the Palace of Miracles
The Palace of Miracles welcomed curious children and families at its new location in Óbuda, on 10th November, at the...
Online Community of Experts helps tackle food waste in Europe
REFRESH launched a great initiative with respect to the amount of food waste, on World Food Day, on 16 October,...
Conference on Food Waste
Conference on food waste was held on the first day of the National Agriculture and Food Exhibition and Fair on...
III. Big Food Conference in Budapest
The 3rd Big Food Conference was held in the Lurdy Ház on the 14th of September this year. The main...
Iglo: Forever Food Together
„Az élelmiszer fagyasztása már az előtt csökkenti a veszteséget, hogy megvenné!” – olvasható az Iglo, Forever Food Together program leírásában....
Students from the Netherlands gave presentation about the present state of food wasting in the retail sector
On 15th June 2017, students of Wageningen University gave a presentation in the Communicational Office of National Food Chain Safety...
Day of Magic Oven – charity and gastronomy
The „Day of Magic Oven” was held on 13 May, 2017. The organizers of the event made disabled and special...
NÉBIH’s colleagues taught in primary school on the Sustainability Week
Within the frame of the Sustainability Week, the team of Wasteless held lectures in connection with food waste for the...
Food waste – it was interesting to students too
On 3 May, 2017, the Food Waste Conference organised by the National Food Chain Safety Office and Deák Tibor Szakkollégium...
The program Wasteless officially began
Nearly 150 interested people came together on 18 November to the opening conference of the campaign called ‘Wasteless: NÉBIH against...