This year, the Egremont Green Committee is focusing on food waste, a global issue with a wide variety of environmental, social, and economic impacts. Food waste has a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint, which exacerbates the climate change crisis. Production, transportation, and handling of food generate significant carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Worse, when food ends up in landfills, it generates methane, a GHG even more potent than CO2. When food is discarded, all efforts made to produce, process, transport, prepare, and store it are also wasted.

Why should we care about food waste?

Much useful information about how to avoid food waste is available on the web. The following tips are condensed from this site, which has more details. Even small changes can have a large and positive impact on our climate.