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Today we're talking about something we're all guilty of. Food waste. A forgotten yoghurt at the back of the fridge.

A stale hunk of bread, a bag of dry wilted greens.

They may seem insignificant on their own, but collectively in every kitchen across the world,

they add up to a global environmental crisis.

So can we change the way we approach food and help curb this epidemic of waste?

I'm joined by Carly Bodrug and Dr. Wilvolsuish to show us how a few simple changes can lead to a greener home, better health, and even a lower grocery bill.

A shocking 40% of the food we buy winds up in the waste. That's almost half. So if I'm paying $60 or pounds at the supermarket, I'm actually throwing away 25 of that. So I'm not only throwing money down the drain, but I think you're also explaining

I'm contributing to a huge amount of waste that's harming the environment and presumably like

loads of nature that's been plowed into fields to make food that we don't even use. But,

Carly, you wrote a book that offers ways to

solve exactly this problem. It's full of a lot of fun tips and recipes and brilliant

facts about food waste we ignore, which I can't wait to hear about. But I'd like to start by

like sort of understanding the problem a bit more that you just sort of picked up on in the

quick fire.

Carly, why does so much of our food wind up as waste?

When I first heard that statistic that somewhere around 40% of food ends up in landfills, I really thought, okay, is that that much of an issue because it just decomposes, right? But unfortunately, what happens

when food does end up in landfills and it's mixed in with things like plastic, it emits a really

powerful greenhouse gas called methane, which is a not so good thing for our environment.

Food waste actually emits more emissions than the entire airline industry. So this is a huge global

issue. And then when we think about how many people are hungry across the Western world and beyond,

and then also inflation and grocery prices, it's just nonsensical to be throwing food in the trash.

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