Tips to Reduce Waste
Sometimes I sit and think about how small things are actually wearing our heads. I grumble because the Internet is slowing down, for example, but 49% of the people in the world don’t even have this chance… [1] Or I get angry because the water pressure at home decreases, but there are many people that do not have clean water supply…
Although enough food to feed almost twice the world’s population is produced every day, 1/9 of people is undernourished and 1/3 of the food production is wasted. 45% of children under five years old die every year due to nutritional deficiency. [2]
When someone spends as much time as I do in the kitchen, thinks about this. In fact, even the ones who don’t cook think of it, they must. Well, what are we going to do? We can’t think of worse all the time and be the Polyanna, but we can become more aware of these facts. Human psychology always tends to want more, but when we realize it, it is possible to change, or at least to balance it. We can start from our own home: less clothes, more environment friendly cleaning products, less garbage, recycling…
And of course reducing food waste. As I spend plenty of time in kitchen, I really try to do something to reduce the food waste. I do not throw away much food, I don’t have the heart for that.
