Food Waste

1AUDIO 17 Listen and complete.

Many people around the world do good actions to help people and the planet.

Every day supermarkets throw away a lot of food. Often it is good food that goes to They throw away also ...............and vegetables with a strange form even if they are

.................to eat.

This happens in Nigeria too, where .................million people haven’t enough food to stay alive. At 30, Oscar Ekponimo, a Nigerian .................engineer develops an App to connect .................to charity organizations. With the App, volunteers can always know when supermarkets give away .................for free.

2AUDIO 18 Listen and read. Answer.

You can do many things to reduce food waste. You can start at home!

1 Learn to read the label on the food package and learn the difference between use by and best before.

Don’t fill your plate with too much food. It’s better to take a second portion than to leave it and throw it in the bin.

Try to make compost with kitchen scraps.

A use by date is about safety. You CAN’T eat that food after that date. The translation in my language is A best before date is about quality. You can eat that food after the date, but probably it’s not very good. The translation in my language is

2

3 I prefer big portions.

small portions.

I always

never make compost.