Love Food Hate Waste, the national campaign to help New Zealanders reduce the amount of food they waste.

Facts About Compost - Love food hate waste

Questions ??

How much food gets wasted?

• 300.000.000X 1000

How many people go hungry?

• 11.3% of the world's population is hungry. That's roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.

Why can you enough the inquiry Dates

Facts

New zealander throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year (that is 122,547 x 1000 kilograms)

That is 213 jumbo jet of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about 5872 million each year.

Nearly half of your rubbish is usually organic waste

• Potentially Hazardous 2%
• Other - textiles 3%
• Metal 5%
• Glass 8%
• Plastic 9%
• Paper/Cardboard 27%
• Garden green and kitchen scraps 46%

• Our rubbish gets buried in a landfill, this is a big hole in the ground, so if we put our food in the bin this is where it ends up

• Burning rubbish is bad  for your your health and also your environment as you grow older, you become more sincere. As grow up you will not be able to do thing that you will get asked to do from anyone. This is why I think that you shouldn't burn your rubbish.  

• When organic waste like food or plants start to break down in the landfill a polluted liquid is produced called LEACHATE. This is often toxic.

• Organic waste in a landfill also produces methane gas. Methane is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming.

• We can compost anything if it can biodegrade - {rot}. We call this Organic Waste.

• Composting puts important nutrients back into the soil. The nutrients help us to grow healthy plant, fruits and vegetables which makes us healthy too.

• Compost recipe!

         Brown + greens + air + Water = Compost

• Carbon “brown” - dry stuff

• Types of compost

                     Yard trimmings.

  Food wastes.

  Leaves.

  Manure (cow, horse, sheep, poultry)

  Mushroom compost.

  Vermicomposting

• Worm Facts:

                   They have five hearts

                   They breathe from their skin

                   There slimy

                   Hermaphrodite

                   They eat heaps but they have no teeth or tongue

                    Eat own  body weight       

Why Compost?

• Reduce your rubbish and save money
• Make great soil for your gardens
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

All excellent reasons to compost
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        What worms Can Eat And Can Not Eat                          -

Yum	Yak
Cardboard	Chilli
Food Scraps	Garlic
Manure	Gloss paper
Fruit	Onions
Seriedade paper	Oranges
Crushed/ground eggshells	Onions
	Glossy Paper
	Lemons