The UN Food and the Agriculture Organization claim that each year nearly 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted across the globe.

Food wastage occurs at the various levels of the food system, namely farming, processing, transporting, retailing, cooking, and consuming.

Compost the Kitchen and Garden Scrap

Composting is one of the most undemanding and eco-friendly ways to recycle your food waste. Several cities have regular pickup vehicles that collect waste food, dried leaves, grass clippings, and organic yard waste to the recycling centers.

Donate Waste for Animal Feed

Look for avid gardeners, farmers, and livestock owners in your neighborhood or at a local market and check if you can donate waste food that they can be used as animal feed or for composting.

Convert Food Scrap into Biogas

Biogas is a renewable and sustainable source of energy developed from organic matter such as waste residues of vegetables and fruits, scrap timber, and forest debris. Researchers have found an innovative way to capture all the energy trapped in the organic food waste, leaving behind very little waste for landfills and oceans. In this process, the waste is incinerated to produce a crude liquid that can be converted into biofuel.

Reuse the Food Packaging Material

Though getting rid of packaging material isn’t feasible for all kinds of food items, reusing or recycling strategies can divert them from the landfills, considerably reducing the toxic emissions.

Reference: www.conserve-energy-future.com