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We are writing about saving the planet before it is too late to save it

When we waste food we are also wasting the resources that go into creating (land use,water,labour,energy etc) when food waste goes to landfill it produces greenhouse
gasses such as methane which are harmful for environment do you think that knowing about the negative impact that food waste has on the environment would encourage people to save food from the bin?

We are killing the planet by wasting a lot of food, And if we waste food we put gases onto the earth that causes global warming.

Food production is a major driver of wildlife extinction. What we eat contributes around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for almost 60% of global biodiversity loss.

Farming animals for meat and dairy requires space and huge inputs of water and feed. Today, one of the biggest causes of forest loss is the expansion of agricultural land for animal feed production, such as soy. And producing meat creates vastly more carbon dioxide than plants such as vegetables, grains and legumes. Moving away from a meat-dominated diet towards a more plant-based diet can lower your impact on the environment. Vegetarian and vegan foods are massively on the rise and becoming far more common in restaurants, cafes and supermarkets, so you’ll rarely struggle. Not only that, but cutting down on meat and dairy products can reduce your weekly food bills.and by going to the northern sole its bad

Here is a quiz https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/reduce-food-waste-and-help-environment/

Keeping track of what you’ve got in already means you’re less likely to buy food you don’t need.Keep an eye on use by and best before labels
Remember ‘best before’ is about quality, you can safely use food after this date if it looks and smells okay but ‘use by’ means just that – don’t use the food after this date.Plan your meals. Recipe planning means you buy more efficiently, as you’ve already worked out what you need.

Freeze your food
You can freeze food at any time up to its use by date, then use it within 24 hours after it’s defrosted again. You don’t have to freeze food as soon as you buy it.

Get creative with leftovers
Soups, curries, risottos and stir fries can all benefit from a few extra ingredients. You can find recipes on the Love Food Hate Waste website.

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Aim for perfect portions
You can use scales or measuring spoons to follow recipes. If you cook too much, freeze the leftovers or eat them for lunch the next day.Most of us have on occasion thrown out food. Two thirds of what we throw away could’ve been used if we’d managed it better. It can be a combination of not paying attention to use by dates, buying too much in the supermarket, or swapping home-cooked meals for takeaways.But when food breaks down at landfill sites, it releases harmful greenhouse gases like methane into the atmosphere. Around 8-10% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions relate to food waste. If food waste were a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the US and China.If you do have to throw away food waste, try to recycle it. If you live in an area with a local food waste recycling collection service, you can use this to recycle anything you can’t eat or compost at home. Some local councils will provide a food recycling facility and other areas will have private operators that will collect food waste – check with your local council for details.

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Smart technology

Technology is a huge part of our lives everybody uses in whether its the TV or your mobile phone it’s gotten to a point where we rely on it.

What if we could use it for good?

We could create an app where people can note down what foods they waste in a day and which ones they eat the government [although this app can be viewed by the government they would only be able to legally publish your gender and age as those are the only 2 requirements for the app] can then set up a specialised team to learn how we could stop wasting certain foods based on their ages then once the government has collected enough information they could publish it NO NAMES would be on this just the age ranges like 13-15, 16-18, 19-21 so on people could note down who to advertise certain foods and people could realise what foods they need to try or buy less off in based on their waste like is they ate 5 pieces of broccoli and wasted 4 they could buy in smaller quantities of the foods.

Suppliers

Suppliers could use this information to know what they have to produce more off and what to cut down by a couple of dozens.

Food Shops

Shops could start pricing foods at different prices based on these charts they could change packaging or make prices lower on foods that are getting wasted more often.

Parts Of The App

It would be no sign up you would just have to enter your age

It would be eye-catching to younger generations and would be broadcasted on the radio and many news and cooking channels.

The government would take it in and close the app for

one month a year maybe August as there are no big holidays that month.

They tally it up and then publish it to the public.

They would then reopen the app and people would carry on.

How?

If we got this app made it would take a year or two to get it working and important to people so they would look and find this useful.

WHY?

Why are we needing this?

The amount of food thrown out a year in SCOTLAND ALONE is enough to fill Murray field Stadium four times over more than HALF of this food could have been consumed.

We waste 2 million slices of bread a day.

£90 million worth of bakery products.

£190 Million of Fresh meat and fish products

This is all a year worth.

As well as £79 million of fresh fruit the fresh fruit wasted is enough to give every learner and teacher in Scotland an apple a day for a year.

A family of 4 could save £700 a year

Could You Help This Happen...

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This article is about food waste in the Uk, I’m writing about food waste because I want  to make people aware of how much money and food we are wasting and how we can stop wasting so much.

Every year we waste 9.5 Billion tonnes of food. Even though 8.4 million people are in food poverty. 70% of our waste comes from households, 16% comes from manufacturers, 12% comes from food services, 2% comes from shops.

At the start of february people started taking a survey and 79% of people took up new food management methods. 41% of people who took the survey are now pre ordering food more than ever before. 35% of people are checking the eat by date and 30% of people used up more leftovers.

In the UK we reduce food waste by diverting it to animal feed. 84.6% or 660,000 tonnes of animal feed was made out of our food waste.

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I am going to be writing about pope francis helping the food wastage and how you can help stop the food wastage.

Pope Francais does a lot with the WFP(the world food programme) to try and stop food wastage. One third of the world's food gets put to waste and families still go hungry. People like pope francis are making a change and encouraging you to stop wasting food, if you don’t waste food you help save the planet.

Facts

The uk produces 14 millions tonnes of food waste each year

2.41 million tonnes of waste is form scotland

Celebrities could be organising waste pick up and they could encourage people to eat up all their dinner because they are famous so a lot of young people would listen to them to be like them and to do what they want.

In conclusion we have told you how you can help stop food waste and how you can encourage people to help stop food wasting. There are also multiple facts about food wastage.

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We are writing this about celebrities that support stopping people from wasting a lot of their own food. One of the main people that support this is pope francis: he dedicated his weekly audience in st peter's square to the united nations world environment Day he said “throwing away food is like stealing from the table of the poor and hungry.”

Another example of celebrities supporting anti food waste is Leonardo DiCaprio. He made a speech at the opening of the climate summit in 2014 about food waste and how we need to stop wasting food.

Jamie Oliver has put a lot of information on his website about food waste and he has made a road map on how we can stop food waste and make the world a better place.

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With recent technological updates, smart homes are making permanent improvements, to change the way we live. Fridges have been evolving over the years, years ago fridges used to be a box with some ice to keep it cool, but now adays they are much, much more advanced. For example fridges now used electricity to keep the contents cool. There are loads more appliances that have upgraded since they were first made, eg; Microwaves, Ovens/cookers, Freezers, Kettles and many more.

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supermarkets and shoppers :3

We are writing about how supermarkets and shoppers can help reduce food waste.

Supermarkets can use in-store communications, tv/radio advertising and websites to communicate with their shoppers about the food they buy.

Food that is not sellable is thrown out. Supermarkets can give food that is not able to sell to the community, they can give unsold produce to food banks and hunger-relief charities.

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Hello my little oompa loompas!

Today we are going to be looking at what Gordon Ramsey has done to avoid food waste.

Here is a video about him talking and doing something about food waste, here is the link - ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPOZ_BFKSg

Summary about the video - This video was about Gorden Ramsey’s Hell Kitchen and him showing his contestants what happens when you waste food. He did this by making them go out into the ‘dumpster’ outside of the studio to collect all of the food they wasted that night. Gordon had also explained how it would impact a restaurant if they had wasted that much food every night.

This would show that Gorden Ramsey cares about food waste and that he won’t tolerate it unless it’s necessary.

Thank you for reading/watching, see you later my little oompa loompas ❤️

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GeSI and Deloitte's Digital with Purpose report suggests that digital technologies can help combat climate change through reducing emissions, strengthening resilience to climate-related natural hazards, and improving our capacity to act.

There are a number of apps and innovative technological solutions that aim to help reduce food waste.

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Saving money

In Scotland food waste costs us 1.1 billion each year. We could save £460 a year per household and £700 a year by not wasting food.

What you could buy with £460 per year instead of wasting it:

You could buy a bloody xbox series x with that and have 11 pounds to spare.

You could buy a ps5 with the money and have 10 pounds to spare.

What you could buy with £700 instead of food waste.

You could buy a PHILIPS 65PUS7556/12 65" 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV with £700 instead of food waste

You could buy a LG TurboWash with AI DD V7 F4V710WTSE WiFi-enabled 10.5 kg 1400 Spin Washing Machine - White with £700 instead of food waste.

You could buy aDELONGHI Autentica Cappuccino ETAM29.660.SB Bean To Cup Coffee Machine - Silver with £700 instead of food waste.

You could buy a ACER Nitro N50-620 Gaming PC - Intel® Core™ i5, GTX 1650, 1 TB HDD & 256 GB SSD with £700 instead of food waste

You could buy a BOSCH AdvancedRotak 36-850 Cordless Rotary Lawn Mower - Green & Black with £700 instead of food waste

WE WOULD MAKE IT BLOODY ILLEGAL IF YOU DO WASTE FOOD THEN SPEND UP TO 2 DAYS IN JAIL DEPENDING ON HOW BAD IT IS.

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Did you know that in Scotland we throw away up to 600,000 tonnes of food per year? This would be enough to fill Murrayfield Stadium 4 times over! Sounds hard to believe right? Well, I bet you didn’t know that half of that food waste could have been actually eaten. Every year, we waste £190 million pounds worth of fresh meat and fish, £90 million worth of bakery products and £75 million on fresh fruit, all which could have been consumed. The average household could actually save £460 per year or a family of four could save £760 just if they did not throw out avoidable food waste. Just think of what you could buy with the extra money. For example, you could buy a new Phone with the £460 pounds or even get a short family break away with the £760. I’m sure that once people start to realize this, then less food will be wasted. Apart from saving money, wasting less food will also be better for the planet. When we waste food, we also waste all the natural resources and energy that go into producing it. In landfill, wasted food lets of gases that are very harmful to the environment. If we did not throw out avoidable food waste in Scotland, it would actually have the same good environmental impact as taking 1-4 cars off the road. The Scottish government has pledged to reduce food waste by 33% by 2025, but we all need to make this change possible by throwing out only unavoidable food waste.

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We will be writing about what supermarkets can do to reduce their food waste.

Supermarkets make people buy more food. They do this by doing lots of different things -

They sometimes play music which can change a shoppers mood and makes a person spend longer in a shop so they therefore buy more.

They put the most bought thing like milk or bread to the back of the shop so shoppers have to go through nearly every aisle before they get there.

A lot of shops have bigger trolleys so then you buy more. Some trolleys have nearly tripled in size since the 1970’s!

Even though these are good ideas for supermarkets to make more money, they are not so good for the Earth. People are buying more so more food is getting wasted.

How could supermarkets reduce food waste? Here are some ideas:

Supermarkets could be putting out some free recipe books so that people have more ways they can use their food. Supermarkets may even be making more money by doing this as people will probably be buying extra things to get everything for the recipes. They could even advertise these recipe books by: radio, TV, billboards, etc.

The supermarkets could be taking leftovers or foods with expiry dates that are about to go off to the food banks so no food is wasted and people will pick the food up to eat for them and their families.

Supermarkets could put all items that are going out of date to the end of the aisle and call it a bargain aisle since most shops just have the reduced stuff mixed in with all the other things.  No one can help themselves when walking past reduced items so if they are in sight where everyone will walk past then they are most certainly going to sell out and less of the food will be going to the bin as 30% of people are more likely to buy items from the end than the middle of the aisle.

If supermarkets started to do more to reduce food waste it could really make a difference to the Earth. Hopefully everyone takes these things into consideration!

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In Scotland food waste costs us £1.1 billion every year. We could save over £460 per family every single year.

You should plan your meals before the day comes and before you buy  your food then there won't be so much waste. Also look at the dates of the food before you buy it so you know how long the food will last. Doing all this is going to help prevent a lot of food waste. And you could also give yourself smaller portions and others so you dont waste as much food.

And also you should also learn how to store your food properly so it lasts longer  so for example

bread=cupboard or if not being used for ages take as much as you think you will use and then freeze the rest in the freezer

Beanz and cans= cupboard if open in a bowl with a plate over the top in the fridge or if being used the next day the microwave

milk=fridge

Meat= if not being used in the freezer if being used in the fridge preferably at the bottom shelf.

So there are some examples on how to store it and doing all of this will help save food and stop wasting it and no food waste means saving money.

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In Scotland food waste costs us £1.1 billion every year. We could save over £460 per family every single year.

You should plan your meals before the day comes and before you buy  your food then there won't be so much waste. Also look at the dates of the food before you buy it so you know how long the food will last. Doing all this is going to help prevent a lot of food waste. And you could also give yourself smaller portions and others so you dont waste as much food.

And also you should also learn how to store your food properly so it lasts longer  so for example

bread=cupboard or if not being used for ages take as much as you think you will use and then freeze the rest in the freezer

Beanz and cans= cupboard if open in a bowl with a plate over the top in the fridge or if being used the next day the microwave

milk=fridge

Meat= if not being used in the freezer if being used in the fridge preferably at the bottom shelf.

So there are some examples on how to store it and doing all of this will help save food and stop wasting it and no food waste means saving money.

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This will try to convince people of how everything has a larger impact than you may think and how you can change things around for the better.

All the wasted food can total from £400 to £700 wasted,  for smaller income families this amount can be a lot of help.

Global warming can be caused when non-thermal energy gets converted into heat energy, we cannot change this however as everything causes heat energy and we cannot do anything with heat energy. Although we cannot stop releasing heat energy we can try to decrease the amount we release.

Greenhouse gasses can be decreased by any means, we can even change what types of energy we use by converting to solar.

Everything Has An Impact:

Even the littlest of things. That tomato you threw out because you were going to buy more anyway it had used both water and fuel. The amount of food thrown away in Scotland every year also wastes 250km3 of water.

According to https://nutritionconnect.org 80 billion pounds of food has been wasted and over 40% of the American supply has been chucked away.

Most of us like milk right? Well, let me tell you it is the 2nd most wasted drink’s in the world over 5.9 million glasses are poured away.

Reuse

Reduce

Rethink

The three Rs:

Reuse - think about the environment, look after it by reusing plastic.

Reduce - Reduce the amount of food you bring into your house and if it is out of date put it in a compost heap.

Rethink - Think about what one type of food you throw away and think about how many animals have been slaughtered to become your meal, if you are eating fruit then think about how many farmers would have had to work all day to put that on your plate.

Potatoes, comes in 3rd for most waste, we waste at least 5.8 million potatoes each year and 300,000 of the potatoes are packs of unopened crips, yet we could save 7 million tonnes of it if we only got what we truly needed.

In conclusion we could save more and waste less both helping your family and the environment. You could do many things with the money you didn’t waste on the food you don’t Even Eat.

By Aiden and Blythe.

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Sunetra Sarker and the problems with food wastage. 

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Sunetra Sarker and the problems with food wastage. 

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HEY PEEPS LETS LEARN about FOOD WASTAGE>

Sunetra is an actress who worries about the wastage of food. As stated she said it's a massive problem that we need to become more aware of. She's a big supporter of the love food hate waste campaign. "It's full of good ideas for how you can make your food last longer by freezing it and blending it!"

She is very health conscious

She is very healthy considering she eats good important food, her children inspired her to be more healthier and her actress job.

If there is more wastage of food it could cause more damage to Earth (global warming.) SO DON’T WASTE FOOD.

If I was a celebrity I would put out more options for food preserving. So there would be less wastage and global warming would be reduced.

A large amount of methane is released into the atmosphere, these gases are hugely more harmful than carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Soil contamination is more likely to occur due to the wastage in landfills.

Reducing the methane reduces the carbon footprint. Meaning Earth would be healthier.

To improve the wastage.

Take a shopping list, (It would help for what you want to get when you're in the shop.)

Buy less groceries more frequently.

Cook only what you need.

Store food better.

Understand expiration dates.

Grow your own crops.

Freeze the things that you made for later.

These are all of the things that would help reduce food wastage, eat what you handle and eat whatever you’re having and eat all of it.

(Toxic waste can harm people, animals, and infect the soil. Wherever it goes, even the air stream. Landfills are bad for our health and environment, landfills with the toxic chemicals from our waste. Could end up in our water supply. In addition landfills give off potentially harmful gases and odors that can permeate neighbourhoods, linked to birth defects and other serious health problems.)

So this is why it's important to decrease food wastage and help global warming.

We need more celebrities to help encourage this interaction.

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Frozen food giant Iglo Group is investing £3.7m to launch a campaign encouraging people to freeze food to reduce waste across Europe.

Iglo is teaming up with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) in the pan-European iFreeze campaign which aims to inform customers on the benefits of freezing on a million occasions by 2020 through TV and print advertising, online tips and on-pack advice.

Iglo hopes the campaign will reduce the €260 of food waste thrown away by every European household each year.

£3bn wasted

Iglo's UK brand Birds Eye will be the first to launch the campaign in April, supported by WRAP, home appliance manufacturer Hotpoint and the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF).

Research undertaken by WRAP revealed that UK households throw away 850,000 tonnes of good food - worth £3bn - each year, which could have been frozen. Iglo highlighted a need to highlight the possibilities of freezing to consumers, as it showed 20% of people throw food away because they have cooked too much. The same amount regularly throw food away because it is past its best.

However, 71% of consumers consider throwing away food which has passed its 'best-before' date as wasteful. Iglo says its research demonstrates that further education is required to encourage consumers to store and freeze food.

Business Led Campaign

Iglo Group UK managing director Andy Weston-Webb, said: "Freezing, as a means of preservation, and frozen food both have the potential to play a key role in the fight against food waste and save consumers money.

"As Europe's leading frozen food Company, we should and can help educate consumers. Research shows that consumers want businesses to work with other organisations and forming this partnership with WRAP enables us to elevate this message."

WRAP CEO Dr Liz Goodwin added: "WRAP found that around 850,000 tonnes of good food goes to waste every year from our homes, which could have been eaten later if frozen. This partnership allows us to highlight the important role freezing can play in reducing food waste, and will help support our ambition to halve UK avoidable household food waste by 2025."

Celebrity endorsment

Meanwhile, WRAP's Love Food Hate Waste campaign - which has ambitions to halve the 4.2 million avoidable household food waste by 2025 - has this week welcomed five newly-appointed celebrity ambassadors - actress and director Sunetra Sarker and celebrity chefs Rachael Khoo, James Strawbridge, Richard Fox and Shane Jordan - in a bid to raise awareness of the campaign among the UK public.

"I have been involved with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign for several years now and am passionate about helping people to create great meals from their leftovers," said new campaign ambassador Fox. "Having worked closely with members of the public recently through live cookery demonstrations I know how keen people are not to waste food. Love Food Hate Waste offers straightforward tips and advice to help people to waste less and save more and I am proud to be supporting them on their journey to reducing food waste."

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Iglo warms to food waste reduction with frozen food campaign

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Frozen food giant Iglo Group is investing £3.7m to launch a campaign encouraging people to freeze food to reduce waste across Europe. Iglo is teaming up with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) in the pan-European iFreeze campaign which aims to inform customers on the benefits of freezing on a million occasions by 2020 through TV and print advertising, online tips and on-pack advice.

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In Scotland food waste costs us £1.1 billion every year. We could save around £460 per year per household and a family of 4 could save around £700. Food waste makes food prices higher which would be worse for people with less money. Food waste pollutes the environment. The UK produces the most food waste in Europe even though it is a small country compared to the other european countries. . 13% of edible food and water is wasted in each household. UK households binned £13.5 worth of edible food in 2015. 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year which is the same weight as 216,666,666 elephants.

You could save money by knowing how to store it properly because then it would last longer and you wouldn’t have to put it in the bin because it’s moldy or gone bad.

Write a shopping list so you know what to buy and don’t buy more than you need.

Eat leftovers so nothing goes to waste and you won’t have to buy any more food.

Try Cheaper brands so you save money and most likely the food will taste just as good.

Check the best before dates so that it doesn’t go out of date the next day.

Feed farm animals food which is not fit for human consumption

Set a budget for shopping so you don’t use any more money than you need to.

Try wombly which is using receipts to score loyalty points

Used bruised or damaged fruits to make smoothies because people don’t buy bruised fruits because they look bad.

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Saving  money

If we didn't waste food we would have an extra £1.1 billion in Scotland, that is £460 per household per year and £700 for a family of four. Money like this is important for families with low wages so that they have no unnecessary food waste.

Here are some ideas to help save food.

Meal planning:

There are lots of Youtube videos and Tv shows that show how they plan for inspiration on your meals, but make sure when you plan everyone in your household likes the dish you are making so there is no food wastage.

Look at the use by date:

When buying food try and get food with the furthest possible use by date.

Make a list:

Before food shopping, check your shelves and cupboards for what you DON’T HAVE and make a list of what you are having for meals that week and only buy the food that you need and will eat.

Freeze or refrigerate leftovers

Freeze or refrigerate leftover soup,macaroni,curry and many other foods.

In conclusion we will save money by not wasting food.

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Saving the Planet

There are many problems that we are doing to the planet.
Overpopulation: There is lack of access to reproductive health care, putting pressure on human communities. Making food and water shortages, reducing the ability to change in the face of climate change, and making it harder for communities in need to rise out of intergenerational poverty.

Pollution: This is a problem that is irreparable, and damages the natural world and human society. About 40% of deaths worldwide are being caused by water, air and soil pollution.

Fossil Fuels: When fossil fuels are burned they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, this is one of the causes of global warming. The average global temperature has increased by 1°C. Warming above 1.5°C risks further sea level rising, extreme weather, biodiversity loss and many species could go extinct. As well as food shortages, worse health and poverty for millions of people worldwide.

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in Scotland alone we waste over £1.1 billion every year on food wastage and If we didn't waste any food we would save over £700 a year so what would you spend your £700 on?
to stop food wastage we could eat smaller portions
or put wasted food in the compost.