My new toy/experiment -still bit expensive, but read why almost every home should be a have one I did say food waste deserved a separate post. Well this week, Craig Reucassel of Chaser fame, has beaten me to it, with the first of his excellent TV Series “The War on Waste” The good thing about having a well -known comedian do it, is that it is also thoroughly entertaining, so catch up on it if you can and watch out for the other two episodes which haven’t been shown yet. Australians currently waste about 38 million Kilogrammes of food each year, about one in five shopping bags worth and that’s growing by 8% a year. At a time when many countries are experiencing famine – Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen, and some 2 million people in our own supposedly affluent country are going hungry, that is not only indecent, but nothing short of a crime. Food is wasted all along the food chain – from harvest to the end product that...
Practising Geographer - nature culture places people