Why Save Food
Your food does its job best when it's on a plate ready to be enjoyed. Saving food saves money and helps to slow down global warming and deforestation. Reducing the amount of food that ends up in the bin also means you can say goodbye to unnecessary packaging waste. If we all make a few small changes and start using up the food we buy, together we can make a big difference.
What’s in it for you? Use up what you buy and you could save your household £38 a month. If you are a family of four, you could be saving as much as £60 each month. Throwing good food away costs the average person in Scotland around £200 a year, and the average household £460. So there’s a huge opportunity for all of us to cut what we spend at the checkout simply by saving more of the food we buy from the bin... and it’s a lot easier than you might think!
Turning less food into rubbish can also make a real difference to the world around us – and that’s something we can all get on board with. Read on to find out more about why and how to be leaner and greener, and what you could do with the money you’d save.
“There’s a huge opportunity for all of us to cut what we spend at the checkout simply by saving more of the food we buy from the bin.”
Latest Articles
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Fact: If wasted food were a country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the U.S. and China.
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To mark COP26 coming to Glasgow, Zero Waste Scotland has teamed up with celebrity photographer Rankin to turn his lens on the true impact of food waste.
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Spooked about wasting food? There are simple ways to make the most of your food!
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In lockdown, we wasted a third less food - let's keep crushing it! We throw away 4.5m tonnes of edile food in our UK homes every year - that affects our wallet and our planet. Find out how you can save your food from the bin.
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A fun and interesting activity for all ages
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Find out how you could save £60 a month
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Simple everyday food hacks and tips that'll help you save your food from the bin
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We want to make it as easy as possible for you to join us in the fight against food waste so we’re always on hand to help with kitchen tips and tricks, shopping skills and storage solutions.
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ISARO’s Climate Challenge Initiative brings communities together to learn more about climate change
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Whatever your Christmas shopping-style, we’ve got you sorted.
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We have a range of food waste fighting activities and curriculum-linked lesson plans to get your waste warriors geared up to make the most of the good food we love in Scotland.
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Every year in Scotland, a shocking 60 million meals will go to waste in December.
In our fight against festive food waste, we’ve teamed up with Scotland’s National Chef and Masterchef: The Professionals winner, Gary Maclean.
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It's amazing the things you come across in a supermarket...
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Food's not rubbish! We caught up with Laurie King, Food Sharing Hub Coordinator at Zero Waste Edinburgh, to find out his motivations and tips for stopping food going to waste.
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Meet the Food Waste Heroes making a difference in their communities. First up: Donna Rodgers, Project Officer at Forth Environment Link in Stirling.
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It’s impossible to think of Scotland without thinking about the Big Three: haggis, neeps and tatties.
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It's that time of year again when the days are getting darker and colder and it's all about hearty comfort food - in other words, it's the season for soup! Soup is a great way to use up leftover or forgotten vegetables so what better an excuse to get schools bothered about broth?
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See why it’s greener as well as leaner when we all do our bit together – with real benefits for our environment, both now and for generations to come.
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What’s the point of saving more food? Because every mouthful matters. We’ve taken a look at what you and your family can do to save more.
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What would you do with a saving of £60 a month over the course of a year? Here are a few ideas for starters.
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We’ve taken a look at some of the reasons for joining the battle to keep our food out of the bin.
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Making better use of domestic fridges and freezers can help food last longer resulting in less waste.
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As a nation of serious cheese lovers, we know you’ll be hacked off to know how much of the stuff we throw in the bin each year. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Read on to find out how you can be a better friend to fromage.
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Here are a few savoury ideas to inspire you to make pancakes a regular on your home menu.
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Dame Prue Leith, a judge on Great British Bake Off and author of 12 cookery book, tells us about her favourite leftover top tips
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Growers of Walkers Crisps potatoes are pioneering water efficient technology to save the water lost in spud manufacturing.
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For the second year running, TV Chef Richard Fox took the Love Food Hate Waste roadshow around Wales to show people how to make tasty meals from the food we usually throw away.
