Food Waste at Home: The Hidden Climate Offender
Food Waste at Home: The Hidden Climate Offender You may be composting – but are you wasting in the first place? The Greenhouse Gas Nobody Talks About You recycle your plastics. You’ve switched to LED bulbs. You buy oat milk. But what about the half bag of slimy spinach you just threw in the bin? Wasting food doesn’t just waste money – it’s one of the biggest personal contributors to climate change . And unlike solar panels, it’s something we can all fix… today. The Shocking Stats UK households throw away 6.6 million tonnes of food annually That’s around £700 per household per year Globally, if food waste were a country , it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US Much of that food never even had a chance: Bread past its best-by date Leftovers forgotten in the fridge Veg gone bendy in the drawer Why Is Food Waste So Bad for the Planet? Every time we waste food, we also waste: The land it grew on The ...