What you can do

Every year the world wastes enough food to fill a bin 1.2km wide, 1.2 km deep and 2.1 km tall. Such a bin would makes the worlds tallest buildings look like matchsticks.

About three quarters of this waste occurs before food is ever sold, during production, post-harvest, processing  and distribution. The food we waste in our homes totals about 50kg a person each year, and rises to as much as 100kg a year in some wealthy countries. This is the equivalent of pushing every trolley of food strait into a skip.

Your home could easily spend as much as $1,000 a year on edible food that is never eaten. In the US the average is $900 a year, in the UK it’s £700 and in Australia it’s over $1,000!

We don’t waste food on purpose, but somehow between the demands of our busy lives and being bombarded with food on sale we’ve gotten in the habit of wasting a colossal amount of food.  Here are five simple hacks to help you save food in your home.

 

5 Simple Ways to Save Food

 

There are many organizations that operate food banks locally, nationally and internationally. With larger numbers of the world's population falling into poverty and dealing with hunger, governments, churches and charitable organizations are struggling to meet the need of people who do not have enough food. Donate food by determining where the need is greatest, and giving all the food you can to people and organizations who help feed the hungry.

 

11 steps to donate food (with pictures)