"There are dozens of fun and impactful ways you can make a difference"

Discover the free Food Matters Action Kit, a digital activity book designed to teach children and youth about food waste and inspire them to take action to prevent it.

Perfect for families, classrooms, clubs, youth groups or summer camps, the kit includes a variety of fun activities to spark awareness and inspire the next generation of young food heroes!

Download the Action Kit and Activity Guide, below, or contact us to order your physical copy for free!

Order your free kit!

Posters and Booklets

Explore the activities in the booklets with your family or classmates and use the poster to decorate your school cafeteria or home and raise awareness about food waste in your community!

These fun materials were originally developed as part of a pilot project in Mérida, Yucatán, in Mexico, and are complementary to the Food Matters Action Kit and Activity Guide.

Contact us for more information about these resources and to order free printed copies for your school!

Cover of the booklet in Spanish Extra booklet cover

Download the Food Matters Action Kit Poster.
This material is available in  English, Spanish, French and Mayan

Extra booklet cover

Download the Food Matters Action Kit booklet for kids 5-13 years old.
This material is available in  English, Spanish and Mayan.
French will be available soon!

Extra booklet cover

Download the Food Matters Action Kit booklet for youth 14-25 years old.
This material is available in  English, Spanish and Mayan.
French will be available soon!

These videos aim to inspire youth across North America to reduce food waste and help save our planet.

#ShrinkFoodWaste

These videos will walk you through some of the activities in the Food Matters Action Kit!

Let’s Shrink Food Waste Mountain (FMAK Activities # 5 and #15)

Tale of the Forgotten Food (FMAK Activities #4 and #14)

Day of the Ugly Food (FMAK Activities #3 and #13)

Each year, the food we waste costs the North American economy $278 Billion US dollars and could have fed 260 million people!

This is what else we waste when we waste food:

39 million m3

of landfill space, equivalent to

13 football stadiums

gets used up with our food waste each year

$1.9 billion

US dollars in wasted landfill tipping fees

In the United States alone, over

32 million hectares
of wildlife habitat

is lost to farmland
to grow food that is never eaten

Enough water to fill

7 million
Olympic-sized swimming pools

(18 Billion m3)

Enough energy to power

274 million homes

3.9 million

tonnes of fertilizer

193 million

tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted needlessly, the same as driving

41 million

cars continuously for a whole year