How much food do you really waste?

A passion project by four Branksome Hall students. Our goal is to limit the common issue of avoidable food waste by making this problem known. Currently, we waste enough food to feed every homeless or starving person in the world many times over. Global hunger issues can be solved, as well as much of global warming, if we just accept that we need to fix this. Please join our mission. Questions? Email us at [email protected]

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Econstructive Weekly Tips: January 21st

Econstructive Weekly Tips on saving food!

This week: Aspire to make different dishes and use food in different ways when it’s close to expiration date. Example: For yogurt that will expire soon, use it in a marinade for your next chicken tikka masala. For day-old or stale bread, make French toast!

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How to reduce food waste

There are many ways to decrease food waste, but here are the main 5:

1 - Only take what you need

2 - Eat leftovers

3 - Watch expiration dates

4 - Composting 

5 - Create new foods from leftovers

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The Econstructive Effect Pt 2

When you go to the store many people often see something they want to buy, however they never eat it and throw it away. People often throw away fruits, like bananas for instance. Bananas are one of the cheapest fruits out there, which seems crazy as they are often shipped from far away places. When you eat a banana or make banana bread do you ever use the peel? Composting this peel is better then trashing it. Eating or using the whole banana is better then buying it and not using it. So before you buy something consider the consequences. How big is your carbon footprint and how much of it is due to the amount of food you waste? 

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The Econstructive Effect

We are a science project run by four eighth grade students at Branksome Hall in Toronto, Canada. 

The true thing about food waste is you aren't just wasting food, you're wasting time, money, and labor. According to research, food waste ends up wasting a quarter of our water supply. As well as each year in the U.S, they spend over $220 billion growing, transporting, and processing almost 70 million tons of food that ended up going to waste. What other effects does this have on the environment? Well, transporting food, packaging and processing it sends loads of carbon dioxide into the air. Sending all that food to a landfill produces a lot of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. Our food system is responsible for one third of human gas emissions. We know you can do better than this!