Love Food Hate Waste

Many of us on Arran are already very careful not to waste food and us folk at Eco Savvy are as keen as the next person to get our full value out of every penny spent in the Co-op, or every hour sowing, weeding and picking in the garden.

And yet, and yet – can you imagine that 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries comes from producing food that is never eaten? And across the world, irrigation water (OK, not a local problem) sufficient for the needs of billions of people is wasted in producing food that is dumped uneaten. Deforestation and climate change are exacerbated by the obscene waste of food we have come to accept in the rich countries. One third of food grown around the world is left to rot, much of it never leaving the farm where it is produced.