Food

Yes food can be reused and recycled.

REUSE

The 1st question; are you a resident or a business?

Household

• The best way to avoid food waste is by menu planning.
• If you do have left over food get good at using leftovers to create new meals.

Business

• Check out the Real Junk Food Project. They are a global, organic network of pay as you feel cafes. They divert food destined for waste and use it to create delicious and healthy meals.
  
  
• Check out Foodcycle. They run volunteer-powered community projects across the UK – all working to reduce food poverty and social isolation by serving tasty, nutritious meals to vulnerable people.

RECYCLE
Where?

• Food waste is not currently collected in Brighton & Hove however you can recycle your own food through composting. 
• Check out these tips about composting from Brighton & Hove Food Partnership. If you don't have a garden then check out Community Composting in Brighton and Hove.
• Cooked food can also be composted but you will need a special composting bin called a Green Johanna. 

DID YOU KNOW?

• Food waste causes eight per cent of greenhouse gases worldwide.
• A study has revealed that the average UK household throws away £355.68 worth of food every year, equating to a startling £9.7billion across the country annually.
• The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that in the UK we waste seven million tonnes of food every year five million of which is perfectly edible.