Waste not, want not
Reading 
gothic_rebecca's post about the film An Inconvenient Truth (which is on my list to see) - not to mention the exhorbitant price of petrol, had already got me thinking, but this was added to tonight while I was watching the news. A statistic was quoted that said that an average family wastes / throws out 14% of its groceries - about $2,000 worth a year - so, meat, fruit, veggies etc. I'm sure the source of this statistic was reliable - which makes it all the more shocking. Is this consumerism gone mad? I know I'm not the 'average family' of the statistic, but I'd be appalled if I were wasting that much food on a weekly, let alone a yearly basis. I hate not being able to compost (inner-city shoeboxes don't lend themselves well to that!), but I try and do as much else as I can - recycle, and so on. But I'm sure I can do more.
gothic_rebecca's post about the film An Inconvenient Truth (which is on my list to see) - not to mention the exhorbitant price of petrol, had already got me thinking, but this was added to tonight while I was watching the news. A statistic was quoted that said that an average family wastes / throws out 14% of its groceries - about $2,000 worth a year - so, meat, fruit, veggies etc. I'm sure the source of this statistic was reliable - which makes it all the more shocking. Is this consumerism gone mad? I know I'm not the 'average family' of the statistic, but I'd be appalled if I were wasting that much food on a weekly, let alone a yearly basis. I hate not being able to compost (inner-city shoeboxes don't lend themselves well to that!), but I try and do as much else as I can - recycle, and so on. But I'm sure I can do more.