Food waste at home and my school
Garden
Food waste at home and my school
Watermelon on the compost heap
Leftovers are composted. Compost can be used in gardens and greenhouses to grow plants.
Martin Kaljuste
Maribet Köster
Marti Orav
Greenhouse
In greenhouses we grow tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons, peppers, grapes and other plants.
School food
Wasting food is inevitable
The reasons for school food leftovers:
- Students do not like the food
- Students take more food than they can eat.
- Cooks make too much food.
- Most of the food is not made at school and they buy that in. They use too much ready-made food .
- Habits from home
Used sources
- You will never know how much you can eat, which leads to leftovers
- Everything can not be recycled
What is food waste?
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-83384149/stock-photo-last-slice-of-pizza-left-in-the-box.html
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- http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/consumer%20products/fertilizer.htm
- http://www.donaldrussell.com/lasagne.html
- http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taaskasutus
- M. Kõster`s, R.Arva`s and I.Lõõbas`s photos
- Food waste is leftover food, which we do not want to eat, or which would not be healthy to eat.
- Food waste has different forms: aged food, rotten food, or simply food we have had enough of.
Food waste at home
Wasting food can be cut down on
- In general we do not waste food at homes.
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- We buy as much food as we eat.
- Leftovers are thrown into the compost pile, our dogs or other animals eat them.
There are ways to lessen the amount of food going to waste, for example:
- Buying less food at a time
- Having smaller meals more often
- Preserving food for later meals
Maribet`s dog is not vegetarian
Different ways to recycle
Food is recycled in the following ways:
- Taken to wild animals to feed them
- Given to farmhands' herd
- Left to decompose, to get fertilizer
- shops give `best over`food to so-called food banks helping people in need.
Favourite food at our school
- Pancakes
- Meatball soup
- Kissel with whipped cream