Love Food Hate Waste
Welcome to the Love Food Hate Waste page. Occasionally we may also post scheduled updates at evenings and weekends.
Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign, launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme in 2007, with the aim of reducing the amount of food waste in the United Kingdom.[1] The campaign has been promoted and circulated by many green sites.[2] The campaign This is a place to discuss and share tips and ideas to help inspire us all to make the most of the food we love. The following community guidelin
Good Message
09/10/2020
Jummah Mubarak
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Jummah Mubarak
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Food Waste Warriors
25/09/2020
By going through people’s rubbish bins (yes, we did that – you can read more about that here) we were able to find out the most common foods Kiwis were chucking out.
How much food do we actually waste?
New Zealand households throw away 157,389 tonnes of food a year. That is equivalent to 271 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about $1.17 billion each year. You can read how we researched this here.
That amount of food could feed the population of Dunedin for nearly three years!
For other parts of the food supply chain such as supermarkets, cafes, manufacturers we have some information on what they waste, but no one knows the total amount of food wasted across the whole supply chain. You can find out what we do know here.
25/09/2020
One third of food produced globally is wasted; that is 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is never eaten.
We might not realise how much of a problem food waste is because we are blind to its effects.
When we throw our food into the bin we don’t see the harmful greenhouse gases it is going to release in the landfill. We also don’t see the fuel and resources that went into producing the food or see the people around the world who are hungry. All we see is an apple in the bin.
There are other costs to food waste.