Love Food - Hate Waste! |
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Somerset is proud to support the national "Love Food Hate Waste" camapign, which is aimed at reducing the millions of tonnes of food waste that we throw away every year. |
Throwing uneaten food away is wasteful – In the UK it has been estimated that 6.7 million tonnes of food waste each year is thrown away. When food waste breaks down in landfill sites it releases methane, a powerful landfill gas. This is on top of the methane produced in the production and distribution of food.
How can you do your bit to reduce food waste?
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When you going shopping take a list – don't get tempted by special offers or bulk buys unless they are products that you know you are going to use
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Keep your fridge at the temperature recommended by the manufactures – many fridges are kept to warm which encourages foods to go off.
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When putting food away ensure that new food is put to the back of cupboards and fridge shelves and the old food is brought forward.
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Remember to safely store food – keep cooked and uncooked food separate, maximise the use of the vegetable shelf.
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Don't forget to compost! |
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Use a home compost bin to dispose of your left over vegetable peelings, tea bags, coffee grinds and fruit scraps. If you don't have a compost bin, then click here for details of the current scheme offering reduced price compost bins to Somerset residents, where you can pick up a fantastic compost bin for only £8. |
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| If you live in an area currently serviced by a weekly kerbside food waste collection service then please continue to use the scheme for your left over cooked and uncooked food waste, including meat and fish, diary products and small bones, all unsuitable items for home composting. The Somerset Waste Partnership aspires to introduce kerbside food waste recycling to homes in the Sedgemoor and West Somerset area in 2009. |
Hints and tips to help you Love Food and Hate Waste! |
- Don't forget – try to buy locally from farmers markets and corner shops
- Don't get tempted by special offers commonly known as BOGOFs (buy one get one free)
- Use the council collection services where offered
- Why not share bulky buys or veg box schemes with a friend or neighbour
- Why not grow your own and only pick what you need
- Cook sensibly sized portions – you might even loose weight at the same time
- Eat seasonally
- Be inventive with leftovers – share a recipe with us
- Take a bag when you go shopping and try to avoid overly packaged goods and recycle as much as you can.
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| For more information on the Love Food Hate Waste Campaign, please click here. |
In January the SWP ran a competition to find the best "leftovers" recipes. Congratulations to Mrs Julia Triggol from near Taunton who wins first prize for her recipe for Chicken/Turkey Roulade. The two runner up prizes go to Jayne Nicholas from Crewkerne for her recipe for Jayne's Cream of Curried Banana Soup and Heather Banks from Watchet for her Cinnamon Toast with Caramelized Apples.
Click Here to download winning recipe - Chicken-Turkey Roulade
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