Aussies currently throw out one in five bags of groceries ($2,000 to $2,500 per household) every year.
Aussies currently throw out one in five bags of groceries ($2,000 to $2,500 per household) every year.
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Aussies currently throw out one in five bags of groceries ($2,000 to $2,500 per household) every year. Food scraps in the bin to landfill create methane – a toxic gas 20 times worse than the emissions from our cars.
Keeping food scraps from the bin and getting them back into the soil makes for healthy soils to grow more produce.
Healthy soil also draws more carbon out of the atmosphere.
Here’s what you can do to reduce food waste:
- Shop to a list
- Get a kitchen caddy (any old container will do)
- Get a worm farm
- Get a compost bin
- Get some chickens
- Learn the difference between ‘best before’ and ‘used by’.
Got a blender?
Whizz scraps with water to make a ‘sludge smoothie’ and dig it back into the soil.
Do you have a dog like Katy does?
Feed them the leftovers.
No garden?
Live in an apartment?
Google to find out your local council options for organic waste.
Give your scraps to neighbours, friends or family who can get those nutrients back into the soil where they belong.
Do everything you can to keep food scraps from the bin and get that stuff back into the soil.
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