Did you know that wasted food has a negative impact on our environment?
Think about how much food you throw away.
Food left over on your plate, too much food prepared and not used, food past its sell-by date, food past its use-by date, food gone off. These all generally land up in the dustbin!
Many of us according to the website www.greeneworks.co.az dont give a thought to the quantity of food we waste daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We may think about it for a moment when were scraping the leftovers off the plate, or when we dump some rotten fruit in the bin.
But its become so normal to throw food away that we just dont give it any real thought, and we dont think how the quantities add up over the year.
Half of the food thrown away neednt go to waste. With some basic management in the food buying process and the food preparation you could have saved a substantial amount of money! Read on and well explain further.
We tend to not appreciate that greenhouse gas emissions are generated from the growing, transport, processing and storage of food before purchase and that, if food is thrown away, all this effort and environmental impact goes to waste too.
In addition to money being wasted, discarded food has a negative impact on our environment as it contributes to global warming. This is because the bulk of wasted food ends up in landfills, and rotting food in landfills produces methane gas one of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
The food packaging of many food products is excessive. There is a growing awareness that the packaging is environmentally unfriendly because it is non-biodegradable and invariably just gets thrown away and lands up on our landfills (or on our streets as litter).
The good news is that people are becoming more aware of the importance and ease of recycling.
We dont perceive organic waste or biodegradable food waste to be a problem in the waste stream. But as we have highlighted wasted food has a negative environmental impact.
