Buy your food locally not only support local producers,suppliers and retailers but you alsoknow exactly where your food comes from and how it has been grown or reared. Oh and it tastes great too.
Food and Drink
Gaylord Nelson
Former governor of Wisconsin
Co-founder of Earth Day
Food Facts
Over £1 billion worth of food is wasted by consumers in Scotland each year. That's an average of £430 per household.
Scottish households throw away 566,000 tonnes of food every year; 2/3 of all food waste could have been eaten.
Half of the good food thrown away is untouched, with one in seven items still in their packaging.
At least £18 million worth of food thrown out is still in date.
If we stopped wasting all this food, we could prevent the equivalent of 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year in Scotland. This is the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.