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Appreciation for food

SAVE FOOD

Global projects, such as the SAVE FOOD initiative by FAO, UN Environment and Messe Düsseldorf, have ensured that the topics of food loss and food loss and waste have made it onto political, economic and public agendas worldwide.

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Appreciation for food

SAVE FOOD

Global projects, such as the SAVE FOOD initiative by FAO, UN Environment and Messe Düsseldorf, have ensured that the topics of food loss and food loss and waste have made it onto political, economic and public agendas worldwide.

Learn more

Appreciation for food

SAVE FOOD

Global projects, such as the SAVE FOOD initiative by FAO, UN Environment and Messe Düsseldorf, have ensured that the topics of food loss and food loss and waste have made it onto political, economic and public agendas worldwide.

Learn more

Let's talk about Food!

billion tons.

That's the amount of food globally lost every year. They spoil before they get to the markets, are sorted out and disposed in accordance with accepted standards or are not consumed in time. 

Save Food - The initiative

Find out more: www.save-food.org

News about SAVE FOOD

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FOOD INDUSTRY
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Graphic: Messe Düsseldorf

Graphic: Messe Düsseldorf

Food Packaging

SAVE FOOD: Food Waste in Numbers
Meat-eating pitcher plants served as a blueprint for this invention. Due to their extremely smooth surface inside prey cannot escape.

Photo: Thomas Gronemeyer

Food Packaging

No more waste: special coating makes for packaging that can be emptied 100%
Bequeme Öffnungsmechanismen wie Vollreißdeckel oder Peel-off-Deckel erleichtern das Öffnen einer Konservendose. Das ist vor allem praktisch, wenn man unterwegs ist. Foto: Initiative Lebensmitteldose

Photo: Initiative Lebensmitteldose

Food Packaging

Packaging for Eternity
France is the first country in the world to have passed a law against food waste. The “gourmet bag” is to encourage guests at restaurants to take home any unfinished food.

Photo: © L. Pastural/France 3 Auvergne

Food Packaging

Doggy bags against food waste
Foto: Crowdbutching

Foto: Crowdbutching

Food Packaging

Avoiding Food Losses and Waste
A skin for the skin: the ‘Edipeel’ coating is to give fruit and vegetable a longer shelf life. Photo: Messe Düsseldorf, Constanze Tillmann

Photo: Messe Düsseldorf, Constanze Tillmann

Food Packaging

Edipeel: Spray it fresh!

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LIDL Deutschland is the latest member joining the SAVE FOOD Initiative against food losses and waste. Photo: Messe Düsseldorf, Constanze Tillmann

Photo: Messe Düsseldorf, Constanze Tillmann

Food Packaging

Retail supports SAVE FOOD
Photo: DuPont

Photo: DuPont

Food Packaging

The Virtuous Circle
© Korta / fotolia.com

© Korta / fotolia.com

Food Packaging

REDUCING FOOD LOSSES MEANS IMPROVING THE CLIMATE
A basic prerequisite for growing export success are safe conditions in the fresh mango business. Packaging, of course, plays a decisive role here since it also ensures fruit quality over long transpor

Photo: Wipf AG

Food Packaging

SUCCESS FORMULA
The Beste-Reste-Box consists of water and fat-resistant FSC-certified kraft paper, and can transport 1,350 millilitres of leftovers. Photo: BMEL

Photo: BMEL

Food Packaging

Best rests

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The Next Round of Communication Kicks Off

To warm up for the upcoming #interpack in Düsseldorf, the trade fair is announcing its presence online, for now, with an entertaining take on this theme. Our campaign is as diverse, fun and charming as the exhibitors and visitors of interpack themselves, and attracts just as much attention.

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interpack alliance

The new label interpack alliance spans all international events staged by Messe Düsseldorf under its Processing & Packaging portfolio. 

The interpack alliance addresses the target groups of food, beverage, confectionery and bakery, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, non-food consumer goods and industrial goods in key emerging markets, focusing on different areas in each individual event. 

 

In addition, successful special topics such as SAVE FOOD and components will also be represented at the trade fairs making up the interpack alliance.

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World map with locations of the interpack alliance. Packaging trade fairs worldwide.

interpack alliance

Das Label interpack alliance bezeichnet alle internationalen Veranstaltungen der Messe Düsseldorf, die zum Portfolio Processing & Packaging gehören.
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