Food waste reduction tips | Environmental Protection Department

It leads to rapid depletion of the limited landfill space
Formation of greenhouse gases such as methane, and wastewater at landfills, imposing severe burden on our environment
Contaminate other recyclable materials
Food waste is an organic waste which decomposes easily and induces bacteria
Unbalanced food source distribution and wastage of resource

It includes pre-consumed or leftover such as rice, meat, bones, vegetables, various fruit peel, bread, used tea leaves and expired food. Food waste is mainly categorized in 3 types:

Preparing a shop list
before shopping

Storing the
food systematically

Food bank could help
needy in difficulty

Food quantity: Prepare suitable quantity of food in every meal
Expiry of food: Notice the expiry date of food when you shop
Shopping list: Shop with the shopping list to avoid over-purchasing
Food storage: Preserve easily perishable food in refrigerator
Food donation: Donate the surplus food to food bank or community kitchen

Participation

Own container

Participate the Save Food
Day on Wednesdays

Bring along with your own container
to take home unfinished food

Share with friends: Be environmental friendly to buy bulk and share with friends to save money
Inform your family when you dinning out to prevent excessive dishes
To order suitable quantity of food
Avoid all-you-can-eat style dinning. This style of dinning not only produce large amount of food waste, it also bad for health
To prevent postconsumed food waste, bring your own container to take home unfinished food
To further advocate food waste reduction, participant in food waste reduction campaign such as the save food day

Make use of unavoidable food waste such as fish
bone to cook soup or other dishes

Preserve tangerine in salt for
months to make a salty tangerine

Make use of the unavoidable food waste such as fish bone, shrimp head to cook soup or other dishes
Use excessive cooked rice to make fried rice or cook with soup to make a delicious dish
To rip the cooked meat into hair-like pieces to make shredded pork and freak shark fin soup
Over ripe banana can be stored at freezer and to make banana shake
Tangerine peel after dehydration under sunlight can be used to make dessert and cook with congee to enhance flavor
Preserve tangerine in salt for months to make a salty tangerine which treats sore throat

Eco-detergent

Resue rice-rinsed water

Eco-soap

Use the rice-rinsed water to plant and clean
Coffee grounds can be used for removing odor, cleaning and preventing insect
Replace chemical detergent by homemade eco-detergent with tea bag and various fruit peel
Banana peel can be used as an oil cleaner and keep the shoes shine
The grinded egg shell can be used as a fertilizer for planting or mixed with congee to increase the nutrition value
Using recycled oil to make eco-soap

Bathing with tangerine peel or lemon peel can moisturize skin from dehydration
To diminish the appearance of eye puffs and darkness, cover the grinded potato peel to the eyes area