This guide provides advice to help you run a Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) day or week and contains lots of ideas, suggested activities and resources for you to use.
Every year Scottish households are throwing away 600,000 tonnes of food and drink. Some of this is made up of things like peelings, cores and bones, but the majority is or once was perfectly good food. Little by little, all this waste really adds up.
Every month the average household throws away around £38 worth of good food and drink.
Wasted food is also a major contributor to climate change, as most of it ends up in landfill sites where it rots and releases methane, a damaging greenhouse gas. The food we throw away is also a huge waste of the energy, water and packaging used in its production, transportation and storage.
Why run a Love Food Hate Waste day or week?
Running a Love Food Hate Waste week or day has benefits for employers, employees and volunteers. It will help your organisation to reduce its overall waste, thus saving money on the cost of waste disposal, and it could help you to achieve your Corporate Social Responsibility goals.
By learning new hints and tips everyone will be able to make the most of the food that they buy, reduce the amount they waste, and save money!