Brought to you by Love Food, Hate Waste, Derby City Council is proud to support this year’s Food Waste Action Week campaign, encouraging residents to waste less and save more.
This year’s rallying cry – Win. Don’t Bin – is a week of action which brings the nation together to save time and money by making the food we already have go further.
4.5 million tonnes of edible food is thrown away each year by UK households. Around 25% of this wasted food is due to cooking, preparing or serving too much - costing UK households £3.5 billion annually.
In Derby, a recent audit of black bins found that as much as one-third of the waste in black bins was food. Much of this was food that could have been eaten. Residents in Derby should place any food waste in the brown bin to be composted.
At a time when the cost of food shops is rising, reducing food waste is one of the simplest ways for families to save money. Equally, reducing food waste can drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, helping to protect the environment. In the UK, food waste accounts for around 25% of household emissions.
The Love Food Hate Waste website is packed full of money-saving and food waste-reducing tips, tricks and advice that all residents in the city can use to make the food they buy, go further. For Food Waste Action Week, there’s even a quiz with tailored advice and an opportunity to enter a competition to win one of 52 amazing prizes including a Panasonic microwave, a Kenwood food processor and a Hellmann’s hamper.
Councillor Jerry Pearce, Cabinet Member for Streetpride, Leisure and Public Spaces commented:
A staggering amount of food is being thrown away both in Derby and across the UK. This week, I’m encouraging every resident to visit the Love Food Hate Waste website to find out to how to reduce their food waste and make the food they’re buying, go further.