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Which big world problem connects these sustainable development goals?Goal 12 "Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" - halve per capita global food waste at the retail (selling goods)and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains by 2030
understanding waste What is waste? - the official definition of waste according to the European Union is: • ‘Any substance or item which the holder discards, or intends to discard, or is required to discard.’(EU Directive: 75/442/EEC) • Discuss:Why doesfood end up discarded? The obvious reason would be when it is no longer goodfor consumption. But a large proportion of the food we discard it is still edible. Much of the food that is wasted has simply passed its ‘use by’ date, and will not then be sold, whether it is goodfor consumption or not.
Why are we wasting so much food? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=Jbo1ZpJBcVE • INTERESTING INFOGRAPHIC • http://solvefoodwaste.eu/en
Why is this such a problem? • Environmental cost • Farming • Resources • Gas emissions • Disposal • Landfill
Why is this such a problem? • The environmental cost of food production is huge. • Farming needs lots of land and water. Food waste puts pressure on land andresources. Greenhouse gas emissions happen from the growing, transport, processing and storage of food, if food is thrown away, all this environmental impact goes to waste. • And it is not just the production of food that is never eaten that impacts the environment, but also its disposal. When dumped into landfill sites, still the final destination of the majority of food waste, it also rots and gives off methane, a gas which is 23 times as damaging to the climate as the amount of CO2. • Video hr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0upqqc9E_o
HOW TO PREVENT FOOD WASTE • Discuss: Put in order these things, from the most useful to the least useful. FIND PEOPLE IN NEED REDUCE FEED LIVESTOCK DISPOSAL COMPOST • THE FOOD PYRAMID http://www.feeding5k.org/businesses+casestudies.php REDUCE FIND PEOPLE IN NEED FEED LIVESTOCK COMPOST DISPOSAL
BEST BEFORE= USE BY? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20170505STO73528/food-waste-the-problem-in-the-eu-in-numbers-infographic
Food waste diary • What did you find in your trash can? • What things could be recycled? • Why did you discard that food? What was the reason? Tips for Reducing Food Waste Every Day • Food recycle at home- tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=186&v=xyQ5ukvSRnA How is food waste recycled? Anaerobic digestion • https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=WdZViehrUks
JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking.
JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY Who wants to do more for an A+ • Watch the movie: https://www.123movies.rest/just-eat-it-a-food-waste-story-123movies/ OR https://www.opensubtitles.org/hr/subtitles/6362513/just-eat-it-a-food-waste-story-en What we need is to believe that wasting food isnot acceptable. It comes down to citizen morals.It comes down to cultural attitudes, essentially.” Tristram Stuart
Why do Grant and Jen complete this challenge for six months?Why not 10 years? What is the point of the challenge? • Explain how food waste is found all along the production linefrom seed to table. • How can we reduce the amount of food waste in our ownhomes? List three solutions from the film. • Why is it important to know where your food comes from?Why do we have expiry dates on our food? Have you evereaten something past its due date? What happened?