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Food Waste

Love Food

• Food is essential for us to live, but is also (mostly) enjoyable. What’s your favourite?

Hate Waste

• So why do we throw away so much of it? So how much does the average Scottish household throw away a year?

– a. £110 b. £260– c. £470 d. £1,010

Approximately how much of the food consumed in the UK is grown here?

a. 5% b. 20%

c. 50% d. 100%

For example … Pizzaflour from the USA

5,400 miles

pineapple from Kenya4,500

miles

olives from Greece1,500 miles

black pepper from India5000

miles

mozzarella cheese and tomatoes from Italy

1000 miles

Why worry about wasting food?

Each sheet of A4 paper

uses 10 litres of water to

be produced

One kilogram of beef uses

15,500 litres to be

produced

a. Hydrogen b. Oxygen

c. Methane d. Ammonia

What percentage of the UK’s climate change emissions are produced by the food

industry?

• a. 5% b. 20%

• c. 50% d. 100%

What can we do to help reduce our food waste?

• Planning• Dates• Storage• Portion sizes• Leftovers

What would you make for tea?

• Leftover cooked pasta from last night

• Remains of cream in a pot• 2 tomatoes• A few florets of broccoli at

the back of the fridge• A banana that’s going

black

What about the food that is not edible?

One kilogram of

rice uses 3500 litres to

be produced.

• Composting;o Fruit & Veg

peelings/coreso Tea bags & coffee

grounds• Food waste collections

(where available);o Meat and fish bones