Food Waste…A Recipe for Disaster!
Recipe for Disaster!
Recipe for Disaster!
What has it got to do with Food?
Recipe for Disaster!
Feeding & Milking Cows
Cooling and transporting the Milk
Processing it into Cheese Packaging
and transport to/from shops
Keeping right temperature at home
Waste thrown into landfill
Recipe for Disaster!
Carbon Footprint Sandwich
Recipe for Disaster!
83% Growth & Production
11% Transportation
6% Other including packaging & disposal
20% of UK’s Climate Change emissions are related to food
Recipe for Disaster!
Wasted Food = Wasted Resources
Recipe for Disaster!
The most common avoidable food waste:
Potatoes, Potatoes, Potatoes!
Tomatoes :2.8 million
Potatoes : 5.1 millionBread:
7 million slicesCakes:
82 000Apples :
4.4 million
Recipe for Disaster!
Recipe for Disaster!
Reduce - don’t make rubbish in the first place!Reuse – extend the ‘life’ of a product before disposing of it.Recycle - Use all the facilities available to turn your rubbish into something new and useful again. Including energy.
Make a Difference
Buy less
Cook less
Throw less
Recipe for Disaster!