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Saturday 31 October 2020
We seemed to be less wasteful with food during lockdown.
Here are some handy ideas to make sure you get the most out of your weekly shop.
The HSE said it is working to implement guidelines in hospitals to address food waste.
Over €7 million is spent every year by Irish Water dealing with fatbergs in public pipes.
The scheme is being rolled out across of all Lidl’s stores in England, Scotland and Wales.
We’ll be teaching you to grow onions, pumpkins, sweetcorn, courgettes, kale, beans and chillis for all shapes and sizes of gardens, writes Michael Kelly.
As charities see demand increase this Christmas, the team behind FoodCloud is making things a little easier.
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
More than 50 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables are discarded each year in Europe.
Branches in Great Britain have started offering five kilo boxes of slightly damaged produce for £1.50.
This gas will be injected into the national grid for supply through the existing gas network to homes and commercial businesses.
A new initiative is helping businesses move towards a zero food waste strategy.
Ireland is the top producer of plastic waste in the European Union.
Minister Denis Naughten is looking at introducing large-scale recycling bins outside supermarkets in a bid to tackle waste at source.
There is a lot of money to be made from maggot animal feed and manure.
Ireland generates over one million tonnes of food waste per year.
The UN said this week that if it was reversed, then the wastage could feed the worlds’ hungry.
Foodcloud’s Iseult Ward is among six finalists who will pitch to the Virgin Group founder for a share of the €1.2 million prize.
France introduced a similar law recently.
But they can donate it all to charities, or for animal feed.
Meet some of Ireland’s most promising “social entrepreneurs” who were awarded for their work last night.
Entrepreneurs will stock product in Dunnes Stores – but reckon it will be a hit export too.
A House of Lords Committee in the UK has blamed supermarkets for adding to high levels of food waste with these offers but experts in Ireland said everyone has their part to play in reducing this.
1.3bn tonnes, in fact.
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SafeFood says the average home could save quite a bit of money by adopting a “eat it or freeze it” model.
Mechanical Engineers Institute explains wastage occurs both at farmer-producer end of food chain and consumer level.
New research by safefood shows that almost a third of consumers believe ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates on food labels mean the same thing.
Feeding the 5000 will hold an event in Dublin on 24 November where 5000 people will be fed a free meal using food that wouldn’t reach supermarkets – despite being perfectly edible.
One-in-two people admit to regularly over ordering and leaving food behind, according to new research.
As famine hits in Somalia, a mind-boggling amount of Irish food is literally piling up in landfills. Tara Connolly explains.
WE’RE JUST A day out from the spookiest night of the year.
Halloween will look a bit different this year, with no trick-or-treating advised.
Nonetheless, there are plenty of traditions that we can still continue from the safety of our own homes, one being pumpkin carving.
So, today we want to know: Have you carved a pumpkin for Halloween this year?
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Tracy Ward explains how burnout affects us – and what to do if we’re feeling it.
The goalposts – and polling analysis – have shifted since 2016, Noel Rock writes.
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