As the holiday season approaches many people are looking for ways to not only be greener, but to do something nice for another person. The government of the United Kingdom has put pressure on local councils to come up with a variety of schemes aimed at reducing waste in the United Kingdom. One such scheme came up with a way to reduce waste that managed to tie in the holiday season and appeal to people’s sense of charity and goodwill at this time of the year. The Lewisham Council has launched a scheme which aims to get people to use the holiday to boost awareness about the importance of recycling and the importance of not wasting food.
The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign was started by the Lewisham council to encourage people not to waste food and to recycle their Christmas trees. Food waste has become an important issue in the United Kingdom, as the country looks for ways to lessen its carbon footprint and to send less rubbish to landfills.
Food waste can be particularly damaging to the environment as well as to the pocketbook. Not only does wasting food waste money, but as organic compounds found in food start to break down in landfills they release methane which is approximately thirty times stronger than carbon. More than eight million tonnes of wasted food is tossed in the United Kingdom annually, which is enough to fill Wembley Stadium a staggering eight times.
The campaign also aims to get people to be aware of the council’s free recycling program and recycle trees which can be turned into mulch.
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