food waste
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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 . £110b. £260 c . £470d. £1,010. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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
milesolives from Greece
1,500 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