Waste essay draft

Hi bloggers

For literacy this week we had to write an essay draft about household food waste. This is my first ever essay. I think I did pretty good. Anyway here is my essay.

There are many types of waste, I am going to talk about Household food waste. 

Every year New Zealand wastes around two billion dollars, all because we are 

wasting food, so what can we do to prevent so much food being thrown out?

New Zealand studies show that the average household throws away three shopping trolleys worth of food in a year. This is the equivalent to 157,398 tonnes of rubbish and $1.17 billion worth of avoidable food waste. That amount of food could feed Dunedin for nearly three years! 

People may not realize how much of a problem all this waste is because they don’t know its effects. When food is thrown in the bin they don’t see the harmful greenhouse gases that are going to be released into the landfill. Everyone needs to be responsible for cutting down on their waste.

Some good ways to cut down on your waste are…

Plan out your food meals for the week - this will equal less waste. If you still have leftovers go and donate it to your local food bank.

Store your food correctly, not storing your food correctly will end up with you throwing away food that has gone off because of incorrect storage. If you are unsure how to store foods look it up and it will tell you the correct way to store it.

Compost if you can, composting your leftovers is a beneficial way to reuse food scraps. Your food scraps will transform into energy for the plants.

By 2050 there are expected to be 9.7 billion people in the world. With 7.2 billion people now how bad will it be then? Globally, one-third of all food produced is wasted which is enough to feed 3 billion people.