We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, and more than half of this is food and drink we could have eaten. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year, rising to £700 for a family with children, the equivalent of around £60 a month.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.
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"The UK throws away around 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year. A lot of which could have been eaten. Wasting this food could cost the average house around £470 per year. But it is not just money we have wasted."
Sandwich jumps out of bin. flute kinda noise
"To make one BLT sandwich we need bread, which is made from wheat that farmers have had to plant, nurture while it grows, Harvest, turn it into flour and then sell it on so that it can be made into bread.
The bacon would've started off as a young pig that would be raised by famers, who would have to feed it and make sure its healthy, then slaughter it and sell it for meat.
The tomato's came from a tomato plant that would have been carefully grown and kept healthy then harvested
The lettuce would also have been planted, nurtured and harvested. bubble pop
All of these things require farmers. Famers require a wage.
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Farmers often need tractors to help them do their jobs. Tractor drives on.tractor noise. Tractors need fuel to keep them going Fuel comes on and almost everything needs water to survive Water starts flowing out of the tap.water flowing..the list of things that are needed to create one BLT sandwich is almost endless. things move around the table, wheat etc jumps into tractor and tractor drives off. pig oinking, footsteps, tractor, water,
Things start jumping into the bin.
Your BLT may only have cost you £2 from the shop but when you add up the cost of what has gone into making it, not to mention the manual labour and the lives lost for you just to throw away their efforts, it accounts for much more.
We are creating an unnecessarily larger carbon footprint Smoke comes out of bin by wasting food that could've been eaten. By stopping this wastage, we could benefit the planet as much as taking 1 in 4 cars of the road would.
Do your part to stop food wastage.
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