Food Waste
It is estimated that 70% of Food Waste in the Hospitality Industry is avoidable, when you reduce your Food Waste you not only reduce your Carbon footprint but you will also save money of your Waste bill.
Food Waste Checklist
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Why is food waste reduction important?
It is estimated that about a third of all the food we produce for human consumption is wasted.
Producing food requires a huge environmental effort, land that has been deforested, species that have been driven to extinction, Indigenous populations that have been made homeless and uprooted, soil that has been degraded and a huge amount of water used – all to produce food that we then just throw away.
Unfortunately, this is the reality of the food waste problem we have worldwide. It is hard for us to understand the devastating effects that food waste has on the environment because we can’t see it with our own eyes.
Deforestation and soil degradation are driven by food production, and scientists agree this is another planetary boundary that cannot be crossed as we need trees and healthy soil to ensure we can continue to exist in the future.
Another devastating effect of food waste is that when most of it ends up in our landfill bins it decomposes without access to oxygen and creates methane, which is a Greenhouse Gas 28 times stronger than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period.
Every which way you look at it, food waste is a major destroyer of our planet and, if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the USA.
