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Love Food Hate Waste

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• What do we waste?

• Who is making the waste?

•Why is food waste bad?

•What are retailers doing?

•What we can do – tips and advice to take home

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UK food waste – how much do we waste?

* This covers part of the profit sector, and schools; ** incl. other parts of the hospitality and food service sector, other out of home food waste, and pre-factory gate food waste; household figures updated October 2011. NB data for household also includes drink waste, which is not currently available for other sectors

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4.4m tonnes 1.4m tonnes 1.4m tonnes

7.2m tonnes

Total food and drink waste

Avoidable Possibly Avoidable Unavoidable

Household food and drink waste in the UK

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Avoidable

Prepared, served, or cooked too

much

Not used in time

Why do we waste good food?

4.4m tonnes

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All types of food and drink are thrown away

The most prominent by weight:

• Fresh vegetables and salad

• Drink

• Fresh fruit

• Bakery items – e.g. bread

What are we wasting?

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Who throws away the most food?

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What and how much are we throwing away each day?

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~270kg per household per year

~5kg per household per week

~ around 120kg per person per year

Average household food waste

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Environmental Impact

Sending food to landfill generates methane - one of the most harmful greenhouse gases

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Environmental Impact

Producing, storing and transporting food uses up a lot of energy and resources

=17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year

If we were to stop wasting food it would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 5 cars off UK roads

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The effect of waste on your wallet:

UK householders are throwing away £12 billion worth

of good food and drink every year

£480 per household per year

£680 per household with children per year

Wasting less = Savings of up to £50 a month

The financial costs of food waste

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It’s not all bad news...

UK household food waste has fallen by 1.1 million tonnes (13%) since 3 years ago - from 8.3 million tonnes to 7.2 million tonnes, or around a fifth of all food purchased

Avoidable household food waste has reduced by 950,000 tonnes, or 18%, from 5.3 to 4.4 million tonnes – one Wembley Stadium’s worth!

But... As food inflation over this period has been around 20%, although the

amount we throw away is much lower (overall 4.4 mt vs 5.3 mt) it is still costing us about the same

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What are the retailers doing?

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The Courtauld Commitment

= A responsibility agreement aimed at improving resource efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of the grocery retail sector

The targets includes the reduction of household food waste

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There are over 50 signatories including… BmMore th mmman

300 local authorities in England are also

running LFHW initiatives and have avoided spending at

least £22m in disposal costs.

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Packaging Lightweighting

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Product Development

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Messages

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Practical Tips and Advice

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Five Key behaviours

It pays to plan

Know your dates Savvy storage Perfect portions

Lovely leftovers

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Lovefoodhatewaste.com

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Planning your meals

Save time and money:• Saves money by using up what’s left• Prevents buying things you already have

How?• Know what’s in your fridge, freezer and store

cupboard• Plan your main meals for the week• Think about potential leftover dishes

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Benefits of Planning

• Can help get others involved in meal planning and preparation

• More nutritionally balanced meals

• Less stressful and time-consuming – no need to try and think of things to eat each day

• Enables you to cook double and freeze half• Helps use up freezer meals

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Know your dates

Checking dates saves money and lets you enjoy food at

its best

• Check the dates on food

regularly and use foods with

the shortest date first

• Freeze for later foods you

won’t get round to eating in

time

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Savvy Storage

Storing your food correctly ensures you get the most from the food that you buy –

lasting longer and saving you money

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Using your Fridge

• Keep the fridge at a cool 1 - 5 degrees and

chilled food will stay fresh for longer

• Our most perishable (and often most expensive) food is kept in the fridge, so keep tabs on their use-by dates

• The freezer may be the option for food we won't get round to eating in time

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Freezer Myth Buster

You can only freeze food on the day of purchase

 

FALSE

Food can be frozen at any point up to the end of the “use by” date

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Freezer Myth Buster

Frozen food isn’t as good as fresh 

FALSE

Many foods are frozen at their freshest, e.g. fish and vegetables, so they keep

all the goodness “locked” in

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Freezer Myth Buster

 You can’t freeze dairy foods.

 

FALSE

You can freeze hard cheese, like cheddar and stilton, as well as milk, cream (slightly

whipped) and butter

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Using your Freezer

• Food can THEORETICALLY be stored in the freezer forever– it only deteriorates in quality, not safety

• Some foods deteriorate quicker than others For example, chicken lasts longer than yoghurt

• Changes in quality include: colour, texture and flavour

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Top Freezer Tips

• Freeze up to one day before the 'use by' date – try creating home-made ready meals too!

• Label your frozen food, including the date

• Thaw food in fridge. Or, if you intend to cook it as soon as it's defrosted, you can defrost it in a microwave

 • Eat within 24 hours after it’s been defrosted – heat

thoroughly

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Top Storage Tips1. Stop veg going mouldy

Put a piece of kitchen paper in with the vegetables in the fridge drawer - Any moisture goes in the paper not the vegetables

2. Freezing milkFreeze milk when you have bought too much or are off for a few days!

5 .CheeseTake Cheese out of its wrapper and put in a plastic container -

The cheese does not sweat and stays fresh much longer

3 .Stop fruit spoilingKeep an eye on your fruit, separate fruit which is ripening up more quickly than

the others

4. Quick VegPeel and chop carrots, onions, etc, bag them and freeze. When needed, just

take out as much as you need and reseal - No more soggy veg at the bottom of your veg box

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Perfect portions

• Weigh or measure your food – work out the right amount

• Avoid piling up the plate with food – encourage people to help themselves from serving dishes

• You don’t need any fancy tools – a mug, tablespoon, spaghetti measure or simple scales are all you need

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• A Mug Handy for measuring uncooked rice – 1 mug = 4 adults

• Tablespoon Good for measuring out portions of rice – 5 tablespoons = 2 children

• Handfuls Great for pasta – 2 handfuls = 1 adult • Weighing scales Follow the weight guide on the packet

Portions Calculator

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Perfect portions guide

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Lovely leftovers

• Keep for the next day

• Freeze as a ‘ready meal’

• Transform into a new meal

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What do you do with your leftovers?

• What’s your go-to leftovers or throw-together meal?

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Five Key behaviours

It pays to plan

Know your dates Savvy storage Perfect portions

Lovely leftovers

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Thanks for listening!Any questions?

Remember to visit:Lovefoodhatewaste.com