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Cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing food waste your food. Use a backyard composter to turn food scraps and yard trimmings into soil.
Alternate food scraps with brown leaves to speed up the composting process and
reduce odours. • Food scraps can now be added to yard trimming
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Metro Vancouver’s website includes more tips on how to reduce holiday waste.
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Food accounts for about one-third of the residential waste taken to garbage transfer stations in the region, according to Metro Vancouver, even though it’s a resource than can be composted and recycled. When food is thrown into the garbage and buried in a landfill, it generates a powerful greenhouse gas that hastens global warming. That greenhouse gas is methane, which traps about 20 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. This means keeping food out of the garbage is one of the easiest things you can do to fight global warming. Here are some tips, courtesy of Metro Vancouver: • Only buy the food you know will be used. Consider how much each adult and child is likely to eat, then buy the correct portions. Try out the meal planner at www.lovefoodhatewaste.com. • Will you eat out more this holiday season? Maybe you don’t need to buy so much food. • Check out the back of the fridge. Discover what’s hiding in a kitchen cupboard or the bottom of a freezer. Make a shopping list so you don’t buy things you already have. • Will you really consume and eat all that spinach or lettuce before it becomes mush? If you buy 20 pounds of potatoes and throw out old potatoes at the bottom of the bag, are you really saving money by buying in bulk? • Make leftovers part of your meal planning to save time and money. For example, you could bake a chicken for supper on the weekend and use the leftovers for another kind of chicken-based supper during the week. Baked chicken can become a chicken taco or a chicken salad. Meat or poultry bones and leftovers can become soup. • If you have guests over for a big meal, give them some of the leftovers to take home. Or take a nice meal over to a needy neighbour or friend. • If there’s a small amount of cooked food after a meal, pop it into the freezer for a quick and convenient oneperson meal. Or divide larger quantities into one-person containers for lunch, so they are easy to grab in the morning before going to work or school. • Keep checking those “best before” dates in your fridge and kitchen cupboards. Simply consuming foods before they get too old will save you money. • If dinner plans change and too much perishable food remains in the fridge, look for recipes that call for cooked fruit and vegetables. Use up food that’s still good before buying more food. • If food at the back of the fridge is starting to rot and looks like a biology experiment, it’s time to recycle
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