As you may already know, Open Food Facts and ADEME have been working hand in hand since December 2022 on the “Tackling food Packaging” campaign. The aim? To collect as much data as possible on food packaging in order to reduce its impact on the environment and encourage more sustainable practices. ♻️ After several months …
On 12th of January, we launched a special operation on food packaging with a press conference and a citizen workshop (or a scan party as we like to call it) at the Climate Academy in Paris. This initiative is supported by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME). Read more about this day: Article Open …
Join the “Tackling Food Packaging” operation ! #TacklingPackaging What drives the project? Food packaging is part of French people’s daily lives, providing many services but also generating numerous environmental impacts, which companies and consumers are more and more aware of.Thus, 29% of French citizens consider that waste management is one of the most worrying environmental …
Press documents:🗂️ Press kit 🗞️ Press release 📽️ Video recordings of the launch day, on January 12th (program down below) FR only📊 Slides presented by Vincent Colomb, ADEME FR only📊 Slides presented by Pierre Slamich, Open Food Facts FR only The “Tackling Food Packaging” project Open Food Facts will collect very precise information on each …
What drives the project? Food packaging is part of French people’s daily lives, providing many services but also generating numerous environmental impacts, which companies and consumers are more and more aware of. Thus, 29% of French citizens consider that waste management is one of the most worrying environmental issues (source: Déchets chiffres-clés L’essentiel 2021 …
The world is experiencing difficult times on many fronts, including the economic one. As inflation and food shortages drive many households to look for cheaper alternatives, some may have to compromise on health. Transparency on food products still has a way to go. We’ve seen with the wave of shrinkflation or in the recent study …
Highlight of the year Our community weekend took place last weekend (21 & 22 October) – and it was a truly memorable time! In the heart of Paris We were fortunate to meet once again at the Académie du Climat in Paris. This year, the Hall of Festivities (la Salle des Fêtes) was made available …
This article is written by a contributor of Open Food Facts Jiří.
It’s been over a year since I started volunteering with the Open Food Facts project. That is, another activity in my spare time.
I would like to try to give a short introduction from my point of view. Although the main creators are doing it themselves on the website. I just translated the website interface into Czech to better understand and use it.
Hello everyone! We’re very excited to announce that Open Food Facts Images is now available on AWS Open Dataset. This opens up many possibilities for machine learning enthusiasts and researchers. Open Food Facts is a non-profit organization on a mission to give people the power to understand and change the impact of food on our …
Recently, Sarah E. Nájera Espinosa (Nutrition & Climate researcher and PhD Candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) contacted with Open Food Facts to use the database for her research. More precisely, Sarah and her team are conducting a survey on the availability of novel plant-based food products sold in the UK. …
