Kitchen Waste Warrior
Tips, tricks and recipes to keep your food fresher for longer. When food lasts longer you can cut your food bill and reduce your food waste for a healthier planet.
Kitchen waste doesn’t just lead to a hefty food bill. It damages the environment.
Food waste is responsible for 10% of global green house gas emissions. By keeping food fresher for longer, using more of the food we buy and discovering products that work help us to reduce our food bill and shrink your carbon footprint.
That’s why we’re declaring war on kitchen waste. Join us and discover the best ways to shop, use and recycle.
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Why do we waste food?
There are four main reasons why we waste food in the home. All of them avoidable. Here, at Kitchen Waste Warrior, we’re facing up to these reasons for food waste head on to see save money on our food bills and help the planet.
The main reasons for kitchen waste include:
- Overbuying
- Poor meal planning
- Food perishing before it’s used (usually because of improper storage)
- Misunderstanding date labels
- Because sometimes life is just too busy to work search for the best way to use something up.
This site is packed with tips to help you deal with these issues and reduce your shopping bill and the amount of waste you send to landfill.
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Why we should all care about cutting our kitchen waste
The UK wastes around 9.52 million tonnes of food every year.
This could feed up to 30 million people a year.
68% of consumers have reduced food waste in the last year.
But the Uk is targeting a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.
Food waste and loss contributes 10% to global greenhouse gas emissions every year.
That’s 5x the emissions attributable to the aviation industry.
60% of food waste occurs within households.
WRAP estimates that 16% of the food purchased by households is wasted.
Source: Food Surplus and Waste in the UK Key Facts – updated November 2023 | WRAP
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