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Manufacturing waste is still a huge issue in the UK, particularly in the food and drink sector and in locations where a high concentration of companies operates.
Yorkshire and the Humber, for example, is home to upwards of 3000 food production enterprises and see more than 300,000 tonnes of food manufacturing waste annually. While solutions are being sought to minimise and reuse wastage on an industrial scale, it got us thinking about the contents of our fridge here at s1jobs.
While we always try to follow the old adage “waste not, want not”, sometimes we find a few shrivelled oranges, a bruised banana and the odd sprouting potato.
With this in mind, let’s discover how to reduce personal food waste.
Practise perfection at home, and you’ll be a born natural for a career in production.
Know your dates
Stored correctly, food labelled ‘best before’ can last several days past the specified date. The quality might not be the same but with creative cooking you never know. For food labelled with ‘use by’ dates, use a bit more caution – it is considered perishable and likely to decay sharpish. If you have items in the house approaching their use by date, cook them first or pop them in the freezer to extend their life.
Get creative
You can freeze just about anything these days and not diminish quality. Breads, vegetables and fruit, for example, are often neglected and left to grow blue fur: cool to look at but not to eat. Assign them some freezer space.
Similarly, preserving food is another great way to reduce waste. Drying, smoking, pickling, canning and vacuum sealing are all age-old methods that require just a little bit of online know-how.
Love your leftovers
Instead of scraping leftovers into the bin, use veggies to make great soups, excess eggs can be transformed into frittatas and the inevitable surplus rice can always be fried. Get creative and watch food waste disappear!
Compost it
As well as diverting waste from landfill, composting is a great way to feed the earth and get your garden blooming. As well as fruit and vegetable scraps, did you know eggshells, teabags and coffee grounds can also be composted?
If you don’t have a garden of your own, donate compostable materials to community gardens. That’s a guaranteed BBQ invite right there!
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