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In many developed countries and regions around the world, food waste is still a huge problem. However, each of us can help solve it.
As data shows that a typical family of four spends about $1,600 on food each year. According to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture, nearly 40% of food will never enter our mouths. At the same time, one in eight local residents are struggling with food shortages. Where is the discarded food? Usually it ends up in landfills and decay, and then begins to emit methane (a greenhouse gas). A recent report by the United Nations Panel on Climate Change estimates that food waste accounts for as much as 10% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Everyone knows that the environment protection is very important to our planet and future generations. Here are five simple ways to start reducing your food waste at home today.
Before you shop for groceries, carefully consider the needs of the week, make a list, and stick to it. It is easy to get a lot of unnecessary goods when shopping, so it would be a wise solution to make a plan before every purchase.
Another thing that you need take notice of is to keep an eye on the bad food when you throw away. Is it because you have bought too much of? Then you may be more conscious during your next trip to the grocery store.
Before throwing away the soggy spinach or old carrots, try to think could this cooked into something new?
For example, stalks and stems (like from broccoli) often hold just as much nutrition and flavor as the rest of the food you eat. Maybe you will think it as a very little part in food waste, but remember that “many a little makes a mickle”.
If you always find that you won't be able to enjoy the food in time, please turn to the freezer.
Almost everything can be freezed，from the bread, grains, fruits, and veggies, even the milk. Freezing food helps lock in its flavor and nutrients, so the next time you find those perfect cooking residues that cannot be made it to the dinner table. Then just freeze them and they can make a great base for soup.
However，not all the food can be freezed for a long term. The best way is to control the purchase quantity as you need.
In general, these date labels are a best predict by manufacturers as to when their products taste best, rather than the time to throw them into the trash. However, it's estimated that about 20% of the food waste in the U.S. can be attributed to sell-by labels. In fact, this has become such a big issue that the FDA is urging the food industry to change its packaging language to help consumers better understand that these labels are related to quality and not to food safety. So remember that these dates are indicative, not mandatory especially when it's near the sell-by date. You can also do a smell test when in doubt.
It can be regarded as a way of recycling your food scraps. Instead of tossing your food waste into landfills and contributing to the greenhouse gas problem, the decomposing food helps to create nutrient-rich soils and prevent the release of methane.
The compost-ready food scraps can be contained in your freezer, and then you can discard them at a compost collection site. Some cities have designated areas; others will come and collect from the curb; others might have collection areas at farmers' markets.
Talking to the sorting of kitchen food waste, one machine you cannot miss is portable food waste disposers.
Food waste disposers generally refer to household kitchen waste disposers, also called home kitchen garbage disposal. They are upgraded products from food waste processor or kitchen waste grinder, which can handle a wide range of cooked kitchen leftovers, leftovers, and vegetables. Leaf includes raw kitchen waste, including peels, fish bones, vegetable stems, egg shells, tea residues, bones, and shells. It generally refers to raw materials and finished products (cooked food) or residues and other kitchen wastes used in the family's daily diet.
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