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Love Your Leftovers: recipe competition!

Got a recipe for leftovers? Join the Love Your Leftovers competition and submit your recipes until May 26, 2013.  Love Your Leftovers is a competition that asks global citizens to show their love for leftovers, and submit a recipe that they use to clean out the fridge. Launched by GreenUp! the Love Your Leftovers competition’s overall winning recipe and contributor will be announced on World Environment Day on 5 June 2013 — with a top mystery first

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Many regional campaigns have recently been launched, echoing to the challenge of food waste at the national level and in major sectors, including hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and households. Perhaps surprisingly, one-third of all unused food in developed countries is wasted by households. The Think.Eat.Save campaign of the Save Food Initiative, is a partnership between UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Messe Düsseldorf, and in support of the UN Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge,