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Post by Urban Warrior on Mar 15, 2008 6:31:05 GMT
I never throw food out, its always used in my house and its one of my pet hates when i see people throwing away good food... www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/ |
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Post by cerridwen on Mar 15, 2008 7:56:44 GMT
I agree UB.
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Post by Jeni Treehugger on Mar 15, 2008 15:50:42 GMT
I made drastic changes in how I buy and prepare food after realising how wasteful we were being, unnecessarily so.
Instead of doing one big shop a week I go to the supermarket 3 or 4 times and buy only what I need for that day and maybe the next.
It helps to plan meals so as you know exactly what ingredients you need to buy and a lot of the time I will look in the fridge to see what needs using up and decide on a recipe from there.
Now - I NEVER throw food out that can be eaten (peels and scraps go in the compost).
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Post by cerridwen on Aug 28, 2008 22:11:56 GMT
Britons throw away a third of their food: study
Jan 14, 2008
LONDON (AFP) — Households are throwing away a third of the food they buy each year -- amounting to 6.7 million tons-worth of rubbish -- according to environmental campaigners.
The government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) claims that most of the food -- which is thrown away as household waste, and not composted -- could have been eaten, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
The campaigners said too much food was thrown out because portions are now too big and consumers just discard the leftovers.
"We let too much food go off in the fridge and in the cupboard," said Richard Swannell, the director of retail and organics at WRAP.
"We cook too much food and don?t get portioning right, so people are full up and leave stuff and it goes in the bin," he added.
WRAP estimates that if consumers cut such waste it would save 15 million tons of carbon dioxide -- the equivalent of taking one in five cars off the road.
The figures come after a Christmas period in which 230,000 tons of food worth around 275 million pounds was thrown away.
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