Eating Sustainably This Year
Even if you don’t stay up to date on current affairs, you can’t have missed the focusing in on environmental issues lately. Going back a couple of decades, not many people worried about where their grub, tableware or clothing etc came from. Most just bought what was most convenient at the time. Nowadays however, we cannot afford to live in the same manner, especially if we want to secure a future for the next generation and beyond. Here are some ideas to help save the planet and local economies when having a simple meal.
Local Producers. We have become complacent about being able to buy things like bananas all year round and having access to every spice under the sun. The fact this produce is sourced thousands of miles away has not long been in people’s consciousness and the impacts are large. Not only does the transport release vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, due to burning fuel and having to use a food and wine cooler to keep the produce chilled all the way, but also local food suppliers struggle to compete with low foreign costs. By doing as much of your shopping in local stores as you can and buying local produce, you will secure your communities future and help save the planet at them same time.
Less Packaging. It is staggering just how much packaging is used to make modern food attractive and increase their life-span. A single cake might be individually wrapped, inside a small box with a plastic place-holder, which is wrapped in cellophane and transported inside a cardboard box, with the other cake boxes. It is often the case that such packaging is completely redundant, so do your bit and try to buy loose or sensibly wrapped goods.
Ethically Sourced Accessories. Ensuring your meal times do not cost the planet means thinking about more than just your food. All sorts of things from which cutlery is used to which wine gifts bought for yourself or other can have just as much influence and the consumables themselves. Ask yourself where this ware has come from, is it something that could be made from a more sustainable textile, and is this a disposable product when I could be purchasing a reclaimable one? Disposable chopsticks for example cause thousands of trees to be cut down every day, when a good reusable pair can last a lifetime.
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