據統計，每年有36,880公噸的食物未被食用，有些包裝食品甚至未曾開封，便被當作垃圾處理，台灣每天浪費的廚餘量，若用每桶高90公分，容量155公斤的桶子裝，堆置高度超過60座101大樓，全世界每天有超過8億人口(等於每8人便有1人)無法滿足基本飲食需求，他們餓著入睡。為避免食物被浪費，養成大家愛物惜物的美德，新北市政府成立「新北惜食分享網」，推動主軸為教育、環保、惜食、分享，透過本市各局處合力規劃並推展，期於社會中形成惜食愛物的環保運動風潮，同時加強惜食愛物、即時分享不浪費之觀念宣導，向社會大眾推廣惜食意識。
      Statistics show that every year, 36,880 tons of food goes wasted. Some packaged foods are thrown away even when the package is still intact. In Taiwan, we create a huge amount of kitchen waste every day. In fact, if we put all our kitchen waste in a 90cm-tall bucket with a 155kg capacity, the height of all buckets combined will be the size of 60 Taipei 101. However, at the same time, every day, more than 800 million people, that is, one in every eight people, on Earth go to bed hungry. They cannot satisfy their basic need for food. In order to avoid food being wasted and to encourage our citizens to love and cherish food, the city government established the “New Taipei City Surplus Food Network”. This platform is established through the collaboration of government agencies and its purpose is to help educate the public the importance of environmental protection and food cherishing.
　　
　　為落實惜食推廣理念，減少食物浪費，衛生局邀集餐廳業者共同響應，鼓勵民眾酌量點餐，同時強化惜福打包意識，呼籲消費者「點餐時量入為出，用餐後量出為人」。協助推廣惜食之餐廳業者展示象徵惜食的打包袋、菜卡及菜單等，共同提醒民眾「餐餐惜福，舞春打包」。
     To further realize food cherishing, the Department of Health invites restaurants to join the campaign to urge the public not to order too much and to take home leftovers. Consumers are encouraged to “order what one can eat” and to “take home what is left”. Participated restaurants are demonstrated with doggy bags and menus symbolizing food cherishing.