Help Cut Food Waste

CRAFTY cooks can beat the credit crunch by taking part in the Love Food Hate Waste campaign being launched this month to reduce the amount of eco-damaging dinner table leftovers going to landfill.
The campaign is being held by Better Tomorrows, the not for profit community interest company set up by West Sussex County Council to run waste prevention initiatives in West Sussex with district and borough councils.

Better Tomorrows staff and vADVERTISEMENTolunteer waste prevention advisors will be handing out recipes for leftover food and other incentives, including spaghetti measures.

County council cabinet member John de Mierre, chairman of Better Tomorrows, said: "We're delighted to be spearheading this campaign. In the current financial climate, we're all looking at ways of saving money. One of the easiest ways is to cut back on the food we waste.

"When it comes to wasting food in the UK, the figures are staggering.

"For example ? the average UK family wastes £400 a year and one-third of the food we buy ends up in the bin.

"Food waste produces 18 million tons of CO2, £4bn of wasted food is caused by cooking more than is needed and £6bn of wasted food is left to go off."

Derek Whittington, county council cabinet member for strategic planning, said: "The aim of the campaign is to give people food for thought by showing how they can cut down on food waste and save money.

"Don't be a pasta waster ? that's one of the messages we'll be trying to get across, because pasta is one of the Top Ten foods that people cook too much of, and ends up in the bin."

This Article is from the West Sussex County Times Website, Publication date - 13th November 2008