{"id":155,"date":"2021-09-28T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:53:49","slug":"minimising-food-waste-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/insights\/minimising-food-waste-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimising food waste in the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter is creeping up on us, and our first instinct is to get snuggled up as warm as possible, with a hot drink to hand. The darker evenings often mean that we get tired earlier, so when we get in from a long day of work and turn the heating up, we find ourselves ordering food in for convenience. Hands up anyone who orders more than they can eat, and ends up throwing the remains away.<\/p>\n

In addition, around the winter and Christmas period, households end up creating around 30% more waste and spend over \u00a3160 on food and drink just on Christmas day alone. In 2012<\/a>, the equivalent of 2 million turkeys, 74 million mince pies and 5 million Christmas pudding raisins were thrown away by households in the UK and found their way into landfill.<\/p>\n

When food is thrown into landfill, it produces a large amount of methane. When this food degrades and rots it emits harmful gases; these are 25 times more damaging than carbon dioxide when trapping heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Lots of water is also used to produce food; agriculture accounts for around 70% of the water used across the world. If you waste 1kg of beef, you are also wasting the 50,000 litres of water that was used to produce the meat. Overall, the impact of food waste is devastating, especially around the Winter period, so how can we change this?<\/p>\n

Tips on how to reduce waste in the winter<\/h2>\n