The European Week for Waste Reduction is an initiative aiming to promote the implementation of awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management during a single week, the last week of November. It encourages a wide range of audiences (public authorities, private companies, civil society as well as citizens themselves) to get involved.

The Prevention Thematic Days 2014 will focus on the issue of food waste and how to prevent it. To highlight this topic and to encourage and support EWWR Action Developers to implement actions around this issue, a number of tools have been developed.

In Hungary, the week's programmes are coordinated by the National Waste Management Agency.