Food waste solutions

[woodsncrafts]

Hello all,
We are a small family business known as woodsncrafts, we make and sell wooden beehive wormeries,garden storage benches,and more.
The beehive wormery is an amazing thing to use composting all of your food waste and turning it into liquid fertilier and compost for your garden.
Saving the land fill of all that rubbish.what is evryone thought on the wormery.
Recycling rubbish is a brilliant idea ,take those a litre of light bulbs,who thinks or these things amazing

 

[The Lively Crew]

Recycling is one thing, but we also need to cut the amount of food we waste. The carbon footprint of food stuffs, which are produced, distributed, packaged, purchased and then left in fridges and fruit bowls to just rot away is ridiculous.

In the UK alone, the average household throws away between £400-£700 of untouched food EVERY year. The equivalent to over £12 a week! There are numerous solutions to the problem from planning meals in advance, buying only what we need, then things like Fresh Pod, which I have in my fridge and removes the ethylene from storage environments, keeping fresh produce fresh for up to four times as long, meaning we have more time to eat it

 

[vvaannmmaann]

I was at an exhibition a few months ago.A guy there was proposing waste chutes in urban areas for waste food to be dropped into .It was then collected and the gas from it used to power local amenities.
However I think the post above mine would be a far more sensible plan!

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

I was at an exhibition a few months ago.A guy there was proposing waste chutes in urban areas for waste food to be dropped into .It was then collected and the gas from it used to power local amenities.
However I think the post above mine would be a far more sensible plan!

I know a man who owns a landfill do exactly that, uses the gas to generate electricity, which he then sells to the grid - he used to be the grumpiest man on earth, he now smiles from ear to ear!

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

ps my own personal solution to food waste - a Labrador!

 

[woodsncrafts]

We are very healthy eaters in our house and as far a cooked food waste goes there is none as our dog sorts that bit out, if there is any. My worms eat all the potato/ vegetable peeling and tea bags ,which means we have no food waste.
We also have a wormery which is specifically for dog poo only, so that doesnt go on the land fill either.

 

[bobbyparker]

I work in a hospital. And on our ward we most waste about 15 meals per day minimum + extras. Imagine all the wards on that hospital, then all the hospitals in the UK. And the amount of quality food been wasted each day!

 

[woodsncrafts]

What ever happened to all the school and hospital food waste going to the pigs, I can remember scraping your plates in school into the bin for the pigs, i also remember whan my dad was in the army they had there own farm with pigs to slaughter and eat and they were fed on pigs swill which is all the food waste coming from the barracks

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

What ever happened to all the school and hospital food waste going to the pigs, I can remember scraping your plates in school into the bin for the pigs, i also remember whan my dad was in the army they had there own farm with pigs to slaughter and eat and they were fed on pigs swill which is all the food waste coming from the barracks

Foot & Mouth

 

[td2011]

The amount of food that is wasted is shocking, and supermarkets are awful for throwing food away that is perfectly edible. It's terrifying when you think about it

 

[MaxDaniel]

We should take care of this stuff. Food is very important part of the world. There are numerous amount of people which are not getting enough food.

 

[The Lively Crew]

It is shocking. I read a report from WRAP that it equates to about 6.7 million tonnes every year which goes straight to landfill. Pigs and Labradors are one solution but they do not get to the root (no pun intended ) of the problem, which is that we buy too much food and then don't get round to eating it before it goes off. At the animals expense, I implore people to think more about what they are buying and then use all the tools at their disposal to ensure that, that food lasts as long as possible.

 

[td2011]

It is shocking. I read a report from WRAP that it equates to about 6.7 million tonnes every year which goes straight to landfill. Pigs and Labradors are one solution but they do not get to the root (no pun intended ) of the problem, which is that we buy too much food and then don't get round to eating it before it goes off. At the animals expense, I implore people to think more about what they are buying and then use all the tools at their disposal to ensure that, that food lasts as long as possible.

My goodness that is just crazy. Is this food being wasted by supermarkets or by people over buying? Supermarkets are convenient but they are wrong on so many levels

 

[The Lively Crew]

My goodness that is just crazy. Is this food being wasted by supermarkets or by people over buying? Supermarkets are convenient but they are wrong on so many levels

That is food that is brought by people and then never eaten. It is something crazy like 60% of all the salad items we buy we throw away untouched. It is there where ethylene control is so important as it preserves that food for long enough for people to get around the eating it!

 

[vAn_734]

Whoa! just imagine the people you can help with that - People in africa who dies from malnutrition - how unfair the world truly is. :<

 

[The Lively Crew]

Exactly! It is not just starvation that better methods of food storage can play a part, but here in the UK, think of the money schools, councils and hospitals could save just by having a Fresh Pod in their canteen fridges and fruit bowls!

 

[rouithe]

Recycling is one thing, but we also need to cut the amount of food we waste. The carbon footprint of food stuffs, which are produced, distributed, packaged, purchased and then left in fridges and fruit bowls to just rot away is ridiculous.

I agree. We should not waste food. It is a matter of self-discipline.

 

[aymanbinmoshi10]

Should be solve the problem quickly