Food Waste and Composting
Food Waste and Composting- We live in a world with a one-way system. We take resources, use them and bin them. The most waste ends up in landfill sites. The problems with landfill are many. Materials like plastics and metals take many hundreds of years to break down if they do at all. This means that we accumulate rubbish at an exponential rate, especially since the population is still on the increase. Toxins from the waste products are released over time into the soil and end up in our water supply and in our food. Organic waste becomes robbed of oxygen as the layers of landfill cover it, leading to a huge build-up of methane, the most terrible of the greenhouse gases. A lot of plastic waste ends up being broken down into tiny particles which pollute our seas and are ingested by fish, which we then eat. Many of these particles will never disappear.
What is the solution to this well-known problem? YOU are. You have the power to change the course of our species and slow it all down. All you need to do is learn a little and apply the knowledge in order to change a few habits and reduce your household waste. There are many ways to reduce and eliminate waste.
The first and most obvious way to go zero waste in the household is in the kitchen. It is here in the kitchen that we fill the rubbish bin with packaging, leftovers and all manner of things. The kitchen is guilty for most of our household waste so let’s attack it first I would like to give you some ideas about how to reduce your food waste and save some money in the process. Some people make money by exploiting the environment. Well, we’re here to balance it out. What better way to make money than buying lovely fresh food, making healthy recipes and reducing your waste and your impact on the planet at the same time? Here’s how I do it.
Where is food wasted?
Food is wasted in different parts of the production and consumption chain. How much is wasted in which step is dependent on where you live.
Some food is sorted away and thrown because it’s the……..
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