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Love Food Hate Waste

We throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food each year – that’s equivalent to filling Wembley Stadium with food waste eight times over! Some of this waste is non-edible like peelings, cores and bones, but the majority is, or once was, perfectly good food.

This is a waste of resources. Just think about all the energy, water and packaging used in food production, transportation and storage. We also waste our hard earned cash, binning around £420 per household a year in unused food. But most importantly throwing away food has serious environmental implications. Food is a type of organic waste, and organic waste releases methane when buried in landfill sites. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

If we stopped throwing away unused food, it would have the same environmental impact as taking one in five cars off the road in the UK – that’s a lot of CO2 saved!

The most common reasons why food is wasted are:

we cook or prepare too much;
we don’t use food in time; and
we don’t eat food before it goes past its use-by date.

Here are our top tips to avoid food waste:

Plan your meals and plan your shopping - this will save you time, money and food!
Write a shopping list for your meal plan so you only buy what you really need.
Keep essentials in the cupboard, fridge and freezer and keep an eye on ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates.
Use your leftovers and pull together a delicious meal by combining them with your favourite essentials. Here are some great recipes to use up your leftovers.
Make sure your portion size is right and check out the online portion calculator.

For more great tips, recipes, food facts, portioning, storage and money-saving advice visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

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Throwing away food has serious environmental implications.

Food is a type of organic waste, and organic waste releases methane when buried in landfill sites. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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