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Procured food items are often delivered in plastic packaging. Encourage the use of more recyclable plastics, like PET, by including an appropriate awarding criterion into your call for tender.
This tool shows how to make the provision of sustainable public meals more binding for public institutions by integrating adequate criteria into administrative regulation for sustainable public procurement.
Find out more about the necessary steps to develop a roadmap for sustainable school catering in this tool description.
This tool consists of various measures which help catering providers and the people working in kitchens and dining halls to take action in tackling food waste.
This tool offers a participatory approach to dealing with nutrition and healthy food issues in schools. The school nutrition council involves all relevant stakeholders working together to improve school meals and increase their sustainability.
This tool suggests how young children can learn about and enjoy different types of vegetables, fruits, berries, and dishes containing them in positive and creative ways.
Sustainability updates are an excellent way for canteens to present their efforts towards increasingly sustainable (public) meals, and for their customers to learn about this work.
The use of organic food may be minimal or even non-existent in public catering facilities. This tool suggests how public meal providers can start to use organic food and become supporters of this market.
Public procurement and catering organisations need to operate more sustainably. This tool is about setting up a strategy process for an organisation (business) to help find its way in terms of sustainability.
The sustainability of (public) meals is a substantial issue that has many aspects. This tool presents these aspects as strategic choices to be gradually implemented in public meals provision.
How can we get everyone in a public institution on board for more healthy food and sustainable diets? One way is to provide a training program for all interested employees that includes cooking exercises, workshops and lectures.
This tool aims at including criteria for sustainably produced palm oil in public procurement.
This tool offers procurement officers a set of criteria on sustainable soy and soy-based products to be included in a call for tender for food or catering services.
How can teachers and school managers involve children in implementing food waste reduction solutions, influencing their eating habits and their attitudes toward food? Find some concrete guidance in this tool.
This tool offers a template to be used by public catering procurers to help them source inspiring sustainability criteria to be included in tenders and achieve real progress in meeting their organisation’s sustainability goals.