Food waste reduction tips
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It leads to rapid depletion of the limited landfill space
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Formation of greenhouse gases such as methane, and wastewater at landfills, imposing severe burden on our environment
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Contaminate other recyclable materials
Food waste is an organic waste which decomposes easily and induces bacteria
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Unbalanced food source distribution and wastage of resource
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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:
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Preparing a shop list
before shopping |
Storing the
food systematically |
Food bank could help
needy in difficulty |
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Food quantity: Prepare suitable quantity of food in every meal
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Expiry of food: Notice the expiry date of food when you shop
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Shopping list: Shop with the shopping list to avoid over-purchasing
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Food storage: Preserve easily perishable food in refrigerator
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Food donation: Donate the surplus food to food bank or community kitchen
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Participate the Save Food
Day on Wednesdays
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Bring along with your own container
to take home unfinished food
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Share with friends: Be environmental friendly to buy bulk and share with friends to save money
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Inform your family when you dinning out to prevent excessive dishes
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To order suitable quantity of food
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Avoid all-you-can-eat style dinning. This style of dinning not only produce large amount of food waste, it also bad for health
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To prevent postconsumed food waste, bring your own container to take home unfinished food
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To further advocate food waste reduction, participant in food waste reduction campaign such as the save food day
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Make use of unavoidable food waste such as fish
bone to cook soup or other dishes |
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Preserve tangerine in salt for
months to make a salty tangerine
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Make use of the unavoidable food waste such as fish bone, shrimp head to cook soup or other dishes
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Use excessive cooked rice to make fried rice or cook with soup to make a delicious dish
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To rip the cooked meat into hair-like pieces to make shredded pork and freak shark fin soup
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Over ripe banana can be stored at freezer and to make banana shake
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Tangerine peel after dehydration under sunlight can be used to make dessert and cook with congee to enhance flavor
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Preserve tangerine in salt for months to make a salty tangerine which treats sore throat
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Eco-detergent |
Resue rice-rinsed water |
Eco-soap |
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- 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
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- 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
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