One of the main identified reasons as to why we waste so much is linked to our attitude towards food and saving money. Students especially want to save money whenever they can so they opt for the cheapest and perceived the most convenient option, but there is the question of if buying in bulk is actually best?
Buying in bulk is known to be a big cause of wasting food. A way to avoid this is to look at why we buy so much food, usually because in conventional supermarkets it's
pre-packaged to us so, meaning there is no control. We associate buying in bulk as being the most cost effective when in fact we waste a lot more when we buy too much food (especially fruit and veg)
An article posted by the Guardian revealed information provided by the UN that not over buying food can reduce food waste. The Think, eat, save campaign (a UN lead campaign campaign) is aiming to do so and have identified the ways which excess food waste can be tackled, such as donating unwanted food to food banks, freezing left over meals and smaller portion sizes have the potential to make a big difference. They've taken action towards this by requesting that restaurants serve smaller portion sizes to customers so less is wasted.
SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction campaign
Their campaign has identified various areas of excess waste within specific foods, providing accurate and specific information within visually effective and informative infographics.
The mission of this campaign is to fight the unnecessary waste of excess food by encouraging opening different dialogues about food waste between industry, researchers, environmentalists, politicians , and society on global food loss as well as highlighting important information in the interest of raising the publics awareness to the issue. Raising awareness, collaborating between different industries within food both public and private sectors and create a dialogue, as well as addressing Policies, strategy and programme development
Rebecca Smithers (consumer affairs correspondent for The Guardian) Addresses that the different ways of combating food waste only takes small and simple changes from consumers and retailers to change attitudes towards food and waste.
Achim Steiner (Unep executive director) states that with such a large and ever growing population wasting the amount of food that we do makes no sense with so many people, its an economic, environmental and ethical issue.
An article posted by the Guardian revealed information provided by the UN that not over buying food can reduce food waste. The Think, eat, save campaign (a UN lead campaign campaign) is aiming to do so and have identified the ways which excess food waste can be tackled, such as donating unwanted food to food banks, freezing left over meals and smaller portion sizes have the potential to make a big difference. They've taken action towards this by requesting that restaurants serve smaller portion sizes to customers so less is wasted.
SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction campaign
Their campaign has identified various areas of excess waste within specific foods, providing accurate and specific information within visually effective and informative infographics.
The mission of this campaign is to fight the unnecessary waste of excess food by encouraging opening different dialogues about food waste between industry, researchers, environmentalists, politicians , and society on global food loss as well as highlighting important information in the interest of raising the publics awareness to the issue. Raising awareness, collaborating between different industries within food both public and private sectors and create a dialogue, as well as addressing Policies, strategy and programme development
Rebecca Smithers (consumer affairs correspondent for The Guardian) Addresses that the different ways of combating food waste only takes small and simple changes from consumers and retailers to change attitudes towards food and waste.
Achim Steiner (Unep executive director) states that with such a large and ever growing population wasting the amount of food that we do makes no sense with so many people, its an economic, environmental and ethical issue.
Considerations
- How can the the different ways of combating food waste found by this research be communicated?
- Which audience needs to be the most engaged with this issue?
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