Table 2.

Summary of the CAFWL (audiences/scope, activities and classification of intervention)

Audience/scopeActivityType of intervention
National, local, business caterers
  • Serve individual dishes

  • Marketing

  • Disclose food waste information

  • Education

  • Promote the Clean Your Plate initiative

  • Education

National, state and local governments
  • Manage grain supply and supply system

  • Law

  • Promote healthy eating

  • Education

  • Those creating food waste to be reported

  • Law

Public and private organisations, catering services
  • Develop rules for catering to lead into practising thrift and opposing waste

  • Education/Law

  • Develop inspection methods to implement rules

  • Law

  • Promote policies in all governmental buildings

  • Education

Catering/restaurants
  • Better food handling to reduce waste

  • Education

  • Remind consumers to limit waste

  • Education

  • Modify serving sizes, smaller dishes and limit excess food produced

  • Marketing

  • Do not encourage excess ordering or consumption

  • Education

  • Reward not leaving food or charge for leaving excess food

  • Marketing

  • Have healthy options

  • Marketing

  • Provide information on Web pages on food weight, dish size or suggested number of diners to consumers on the platform webpage (for restaurants)

  • Education

  • Encouraging consumers to increase waste – fines of 1,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan

  • Law

  • Businesses having excessive waste – fines of 5,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan

  • Law

Canteens/schools
  • Improve food ordering and production systems

  • Education

  • Have different sizes

  • Marketing

  • Have healthy options

  • Marketing

  • Promote anti-waste messaging

  • Education

  • Establish an anti-food waste supervision and inspection mechanism

  • Law

  • Formulate and implement corresponding reward and punishment measures

  • Law

Tourism businesses
  • Promote healthy eating

  • Education

  • Encourage appropriate ordering

  • Education

All government bodies
  • Undertake programs to limit waste

  • Education/law

  • Promote an environment where waste is shameful

  • Education

Individuals
  • Form civilised, healthy, rational and green consumption concepts, and reasonably order and take food in light of their health conditions, dietary habits and dining needs when dining out

  • Education

  • Minimise food purchasing and preparation for daily needs

  • Education

Catering associations
  • Create self-regulation to implement guidelines

  • Education

  • Take necessary self-regulatory measures against members that commit wasteful acts

  • Law

  • Promote performance of organisations regarding food waste

  • Education

Consumer organisations
  • Strengthen food consumption education for consumers and direct them to form the consumption habit of voluntarily resisting waste

  • Education

  • Reduce family food waste

  • Education

Media
  • Promote limiting food waste

  • Education

  • Highlight food waste

  • Education

  • Do not promote excessive eating

  • Education

  • Breaching rules could result in fines of 10,000 yuan or more than 100,000 yuan, or business closure

  • Law

ALL
  • Establish ways to direct excess food to those in need

  • Education

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