Sustainable And Environmentally Friendly Eating

Even if you don’t stay up to date on current affairs, you can’t have missed the focusing in on environmental issues lately. Even as recently as the 90’s, not many people really considered where their nutrition tableware or clothing etc came from. It was a case of what do I want and where do I get it. However, in a struggling economy and a planet suffering all sorts of pollution, we need to think differently about how we live our lives. Taking some time to think about where you get and how you consume your food can have a surprisingly big impact.

Shop Local. We take it for granted these days that we can pop down the local shop and buy some fruits from exotic shores and wines from the other side of the world for example. However, a huge amount of these products are flown thousands of miles from other countries and this causes problems. 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 fridge to keep the produce chilled all the way, but also local food suppliers struggle to compete with low foreign costs. If you don’t want to see local businesses going under, make sure you support them and shop local as much as you can.

Less Packaging. You only have to take a walk down one of the isles to see how much food packaging is wasted making products look pretty. 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.

Green Accessories. It is not only what food you buy than can have an effect on the planet. Everything from the cutlery you use to the little wine gifts you purchase for other people can have a knock on effect and so deserve consideration. 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? A good example of this is chopsticks as the disposable kind accounts for acres of lost rain forest every day.

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