Can You Take Food Waste To Skip

Can You Take Food Waste To Skip

Food waste is an emotive subject, and there is real danger of people either getting paranoid about throwing any scraps down the sink or bin, or becoming so blasé they don’t bother to sort their waste properly. It’s easy for even environmentallyaware people to get it wrong and still create food waste. Below are some commonsense tips to prevent food from going to waste. I have focused on kitchen food waste; but many of these points apply equally to rescued food prepared at events etc.

Can You Throw Food Waste Into A Skip

The aim of the Skip Hire UK campaign is to help consumers reduce the amount of food they throw away by providing practical and simple advice to prevent them from overordering or overbuying at the shops. The website is packed full of ideas on how to reduce food waste, find recipes for leftovers, and understand date labelling so you have a better idea about when your food is no longer safe to eat. It seems as if every week there’s another article on food waste in the national (or local) press, with tales of dismay about the average household throwing away up to £700 of food each year.

Tow Away Bins For Food Waste Available

In fact, households are advised that it is not just good sense but a legal obligation to make sure that they properly dispose of food waste. The Eat a Little Better campaign, which doesn’t just focus on food waste but encourages us all to find ways of eating fresher, more sustainably and healthily, is also information rich. Learn about their tips for cooking quicker, and how to eat better (and fresher) food no cookbooks or scales required.

Skip Hire UK. The website contains many food waste reduction ideas, guides on composting and recycling and information about specific food items such as seasonal recipes and the quantities you’ll need – perfect for batch cooking. Skip Hire UK offers free compost giveaways once every two months to residents of Somerset with a garden in which food waste can be recycled. If you’re in the middle of a big clear out of your house or business and it’s time to start taking things to the local Skip Hire UK can you take sofa to local skip.

Making the most of our natural resources is a great way to reduce the amount of waste we produce as well as doing our bit for the environment which is why I am delighted that Skip Hire UK is providing a new service to businesses, schools and community groups . By collecting food waste from homes they are helping the county divert more organic waste from landfill. Food waste is a huge issue for households in the UK and many people are unaware of how much they are wasting each week.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that ‘A staggering 45% of food purchased in the UK is thrown away – that’s 10 million tonnes of food from our homes alone…so whatever we want to describe it as, food waste is a serious global issue. We have compiled a number of local and national free drop off points for specific food waste groups, which are updated weekly. If you are having a bagged up food waste collection, or would like to find a local food bank or charity that can collect bagged up food waste from your home, please check with the Skip Hire UK – we may be able to help you out.

Here at Skip Hire UK, we know that by helping to collect and recycle food waste we are diverting good quality, nutritious food away from landfills and into the compost bin. This helps us to protect our environment and natural resources, while at the same time helping to bring down the cost of our household waste collections. The real proof however is in the figures. In this is blog, you will find out how much food waste the Sustainable Skip Hire UK mpany collects from our residents across Somerset, how much of that food waste is sent for composting or anaerobic digestion (AD), through what channels we collect it and what improvements our customers have made in reducing their home food waste since the start of the 2012/13 financial year when charges for.

The Food Cycle Campaign has a range of information on its website at Skip Hire UK. There are downloadable leaflets explaining about the campaign and the activities it promotes, an ideas book with recipes and hints from Waste Not Want Not chef James Martin, and a factsheet on food waste with statistics that make food waste worrying – but also shows that many people are tackling this problem by doing great things in their own homes, schools and workplaces.

You might think that fruit, vegetables and bread are all part of the food we must not throw away. In fact, this is only true of fruit and veg. All other food should be in your green bin or food waste caddy. This includes ‘dry’ household food waste such as cooked rice, pasta, and breakfast cereals; ‘wet’ household food waste such as cooking oil and tinned and packet goods; tea bags, coffee grounds and other teabags; empty pasta, rice and cereal packets etc.

How much household food waste do we, in Somerset, throw away each year? According to Skip Hire UK – 16,500 tonnes! That would fill 17 Olympic sized swimming pools from end to end, and weigh more than the entire population of Taunton. That’s a staggering amount of food going to waste every year. This website has the most upto date information about what can and cannot be taken to your local food waste recycling centre by using its uptothe minute online tools.