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Food sustainability

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  • What should you do with leftover ingredients instead of throwing them away?
    Use them to make something new
  • If you are eating in a restaurant and are full, what should you do to reduce food waste?
    You could ask to take your leftovers home. Restaurants are one of the biggest producers of food waste
  • True or False: A main cause of food waste is consumer behaviour
    True, it is the reason for so many of the problems concerning food waste
  • What is this method of reducing waste?
    Recycling food using a food waste bin
  • Does buying 'wonky veg' (ugly vegetables) help reduce food waste?
    Yes, sellers will throw away lots of ugly food because nobody wants to buy it
  • What is this method of reducing waste?
    Planning so that we don't buy food that will be wasted
  • What causes food production to have such a large carbon footprint?
    production, transportation, distribution
  • What percentage of people in the world don't have enough food?
    10% which is 1 out of 10 people
  • How will you, personally, try and reduce food waste in your life?
  • Which greenhouse gas is produced by wasted food in a landfill?
    Methane
  • Tell me one way food waste impacts the environment
    Carbon footprint / Produces methane
  • True or False: 15% of food is wasted each year
    False, over 30% of food is wasted!
  • Does producing food require lots of land and water?
    Yes, this land and water is very important which is why food waste is bad