World Disco Soup Day

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26 Abr 2025

World Disco Soup Day is a global event created by Slow Food Youth Network to promote the discussion on the topic of food waste, cook dishes from food scraps and enjoy the process of learning and being together. It all started from our need to fight food waste together while having fun, gathering and dancing.

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Every year, the world produces 2.24 billion pounds of waste. If we piled it all together, it would be taller than Mount Everest. Every year, year after year.

15% of the world’s food is lost once harvested and it never reaches the shops. Another 17% of food is wasted at retail and consumer level. (data: FAO) Reducing food waste means redistributing our resources to be able to feed the entire world population – we already produce enough food for 10 billion people!

Food loss and waste also account for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions! This means addressing food waste also means reducing carbon emissions and their dramatic consequences on our planet’s rising temperature.

World Disco Soup Day is a global event created by Slow Food Youth Network to promote the discussion on the topic of food waste, cook dishes from food scraps and enjoy the process of learning and being together. It all started from our need to fight food waste together while having fun, gathering and dancing.

How did it start?

Disco Soup started 8 years ago in Berlin, Germany, as Schnippeldisko, a ‘protest soup’, against food waste that fed 8000 people.

From then on, they started to spread across the world as a fun, meaningful way to bring this crisis into focus. Many different editions have taken place. Each Disco Soup event was individually run, relying on local volunteers to organize every detail, until in 2016, the Slow Food Youth Network Brazil organized a national Disco Soup Day. So, why not do the same internationally?

We got together with our international network of food producers, activists, students and others food professionals and decided to organize the first World Disco Soup Day! Now on April 26 we once again call for attention and action against global food waste, by organizing one of the best known projects of the Slow Food Youth Network: Disco Soup.

“The idea is to give the importance and bigness that the food waste issue has, by doing a big event at the places that suffer with this issue, in other words, by doing the event in the whole world” Caio Bonamigo Dorigon, Brazilian SFYN leader and one of the coordinators of the event.

What’s happening this year?

This year, World Disco Soup Day will take place on Saturday 26th of April. As in the past edition, we will focus our campaign on food policies, emphasising how they influence our approach to food waste and its management. With our mantra ‘’Save our food, save our planet!’’, we aim to show how impactful food policy can be in tackling the climate crisis.

If you want to be part of the Disco Soup community, this informative page will explain how to join as an individual or as a community in the months prior to the event and on the day itself. And while waiting for the Big Day, we welcome you to have a look at delicious food-saving recipes from our Disco Soup Cookbook! Plus, follow us on Instagram where we’ll share fun and easy recipes with unusual ingredients that are normally thrown away. Let’s go!

How can you celebrate?

On April 26th we will celebrate the 9th edition of World Disco Soup Day together. How can you celebrate? Alone or with your friends, at home or in a public space: make #WorldDiscoSoupDay the way it is better for you!

Joining World Disco Soup Day can be a chance to learn more about your local municipality’s waste management and inspiring examples of virtuous food policies around the globe. Consider partnering with your municipality and cooperate to create a Disco Soup together in a public space. For World Disco Soup Day, you’ll learn how to take action and be a pivotal contributor to your local food policy.

Reach out to your local Slow Food community to celebrate in person or organize your own online event. Don’t forget to invite your community and friends, and consider extending an invitation to your local food policymaker. It’s a chance to engage in meaningful conversations about food waste management!

Not part of Slow Food or the Slow Food Youth Network? No problem! You are welcome to join as an individual, organisation or with a group of friends. Let’s celebrate food together and make a difference!

How to join and practical tools

Registration link (for you and to share with your network): https://forms.gle/1JaurgK9MbwzfhSq8
Google Drive for World Disco Soup Day OFFICIAL
Join our Slow Food Youth Network Telegram channel: LINK HERE
Follow @slowfoodyouthnetwork on Instagram and #WorldDiscoSoupDay

Option 1: join us from home

If you prefer, you can organise a Disco Soup at home by yourself or with your friends and family and if it is up to your fancy, you can even livestream your disco soup on your social media and show it to our community! It is important to note that every Disco Soup contributes to the global impact: from the small leftover soup you’re making just for yourself or the Disco Soup dinner you’re organising with your roommates and friends, to the Disco Soup you host at the local market sharing food with passengers.

Option 2: Disco Soup Events

In case you can organise a physical and public event (AMAZING!!!), share the wonderful taste of your Disco Soup with as many people as possible! For detailed information on how to organise a Disco Soup, you can also read the Disco Soup toolkits in our World Disco Soup Day Google Drive.