Food and cooking demo goes down a treat

Posted on November 23, 2011 by recycleboy

There might have been a bit of a chill in the air but there were plenty of hot and spicy treats for the large crowds that gathered throughout the day for Lewisham’s first Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) cooking demonstration. On Monday 21st November, celebrated chef Richard Fox spent the day just outside the shopping [...]

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Top 10 tips for cooking and storing food in the home

Posted on November 16, 2011 by recycleboy

So how do you go about cutting down on food waste? Here are some top tips:   1. Make the most of foods approaching use by date: why not cook and freeze for later use? For example, cook those sausages, freeze them and then turn them into a sausage risotto on another day.  2. Remember [...]

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Sainsbury’s reveals we are what we waste

Posted on November 9, 2011 by recycleboy

The average Brit could save more than double the amount they think they can The average household could save £50 a month by avoiding food waste 46% admit that they don’t know the correct ways to store food Sainsbury’s reveals a set of waste ‘typologies’ to help people identify the ways they waste food According [...]

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A ‘Cheesy’ Story.

Posted on October 28, 2011 by recycleboy

As families look for ways to save money on their household bills, many of us aren’t aware that food waste not only hits us in the pocket – up to £50 a month – but has a serious impact on the environment too. Think of a pack of cheese. The resources that go into maintaining [...]

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Capital Growth’s £35,000 boost to get Londoners growing food

Posted on October 20, 2011 by recycleboy

The Mayor is calling for more green-fingered volunteers to step up and join Capital Growth by bidding for a share of £35,000 now available to budding community food gardening groups. In this latest round of money available through Capital Growth, any community group with a plot of land ready to grow on, can apply for [...]

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Freshers Love Food and Hate Waste

Posted on October 6, 2011 by recycleboy

  The Environment and Community Development (ECD) Team recently visited Goldsmiths University to promote the Love Food Hate Waste campaign at the Freshers Fayre. The event was over two days and was held in a large marquee just off Laurie Grove where hundreds of new students were in attendance. The ECD team occupied a table [...]

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“Leftovers” ft. Lewisham

Posted on September 6, 2011 by recycleboy

Students at Goldsmiths College, New Cross produced this excellent video as part of their final year Media and Communications project. It discusses the fact that in the UK we throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food waste every year and highlights the issues associated with this in terms of the huge waste of resources. The [...]

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Lewisham’s recycling rate gets a mention

Posted on January 14, 2011 by recycleboy

Yesterday Lewisham’s recycling rate was cited on the Guardian Environment Blog so I thought it would be appropriate to provide a response on our own blog (which was also mentioned).  The first issue that needs raising is that the blog posting appears to favour incineration as a means of waste disposal, referencing Germany as an [...]

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Love Christmas – Hate Waste

Posted on December 22, 2010 by recycleboy

As Christmas is fast approaching I thought it might be pertinent to do a Christmas related waste post… Without wanting to sound like a scrooge, Christmas is a time of both excessive consumption and waste. Whilst I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have a couple of extra mince pies or give your loved ones presents, [...]

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Food on the go Litter

Posted on November 30, 2010 by recycleboy

Nobody likes seeing litter on the streets of Lewisham (or any streets for that matter!), it can be bad for business and tourism, dangerous to children and animals, attracts rodents and encourages further anti-social behaviour. In Lewisham, we have collected 193 tonnes of food on the go related litter, that was not properly disposed of! [...]

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Plastic bottle tops!

Posted on September 24, 2010 by recycleboy

I’ve just been sent this useful tip for re-using the lids from plastic bottles – it saves them from going in your recycling (where they can be a bit of a pain) and gives them another life, it will also save you from having to buy bag clips …. Make an incision and using a [...]

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Love Food Hate Waste

Posted on September 10, 2010 by recycleboy

Lewisham Council are putting on some free Love Food Hate Waste workshops … What’s it all about? Love Food Hate Waste is the ‘Waste Not Want Not’ of the modern day, providing handy tips, advice and recipes for leftovers to help everyone waste less food. Why? 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in [...]

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Get Composting …

Posted on May 17, 2010 by recycleboy

Lewisham Council is putting on free composting workshops for residents. A local resident who attended one of Lewisham’s composting workshops gave us some feedback on the session,  if the sessions are this good surely you have to give it a go …  “What a useful and interesting way to spend a Sunday morning! The style of the [...]

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When will Lewisham get food waste recycling?

Posted on February 22, 2010 by recycleboy

Lewisham currently doesn’t collect food waste for a number of reasons; currently Lewisham’s refuse (including food waste) is sent to SELCHP where it is incinerated and energy is recovered from it producing electricity which is then piped back into the national grid. The ideal output for food waste if it were collected would be to [...]

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