Love Food Hate Waste

Around a quarter of all the food and drink we buy ends up being thrown away and most of it could have been consumed. Imagine buying four bags of food and throwing one away!

Save money and help the environment too

Wasting this food is not only a waste of money – an average family with children throws away an average of £680 of food a year – but it also damages the environment.

Producing, storing and getting the food to our homes uses a lot of energy. If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.

Most of this food reaches landfill sites where it emits methane, a greenhouse gas that’s twenty times more powerful than CO2.

Love Food Hate Waste Campaign

To help reduce your food bill and help the environment simply log onto the Love Food Hate Waste website link on the right hand side of this page for lots of tasty recipes and really useful information about:

• getting portion sizes just right
• planning meals
• store cupboard essentials
• understanding ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates
• lots of recipes for using leftovers and foods that we usually waste
• top tips about storing different types of food.

Launch of the Food Lovers Cook Book.

Thanks to every one who submitted their delicious recipe ideas for using up leftovers.  To have a look at the winning recipes click on The Food Lovers Cookbook on downloadable documents at the bottom of this page.

Come along to a workshop

Why not sign up to one of our love food hate waste workshops and find out how to make the most of the food that you buy. You will also get the chance to cook too!  Book a free place by clicking onto the NLWA link under useful websites on the right hand side of this page.

Turn your food waste into compost

Home composting

If you have a garden or balcony there are various council subsidised wormeries and food digesters that will help you compost some waste food items. Click on the Composting link on the right hand side to find out more.

Food waste collection

We provide a weekly food waste collection to street properties.

Click on the link on the Recycling in the Kitchen right hand side for more information.