Household food wastage has significant environmental, health, social and economic impacts. Wasting food doesn’t only hit you in the back pocket and waste your time and energy, it also has significant environmental consequences. Farming, producing, harvesting, transporting, processing, packaging, distributing, storing and cooking food all use huge amounts of energy, fuel, water and natural resources. It’s not just the resources required to get the food from the farm to your plate that we are worried about though – what goes in the bin counts too with wasted food in landfill being the main contributor to the production of methane gas.
By swapping our wasteful habits for a more sustainable approach to buying, preparing and managing our food, we can all play a part in bringing about significant environmental and greenhouse…
