Zero waste chef and author of ‘More Plants, Less Waste’ Max La Manna shares his tips and challenges you to reduce your food waste for one whole week.
Food waste is a bigger problem than people realise. One quarter of the food thrown away in the US, UK and Europe could feed the world’s nearly 1 billion people. Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Tossing edible food in the bin doesn’t just waste money – it wastes water, transportation, labour, energy, packaging, and resources. Discarded food is sent to landfills, where it rots and produces methane gas – the second most common greenhouse gas. In other words, throwing out your food contributes to climate change.
Sadly, it is not an exaggeration to say that food waste is one of the biggest problems facing mankind today. So let’s rethink how we buy food; how we store food; how we eat; and how we put food back into the earth.