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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to see what gets thrown away so

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Speaker 1: you can increase efficiency and reduce waste. If you went

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Speaker 1: to camp as a kid, you may have vivid memories

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Speaker 1: of a common experiment, being asked to collect the food

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Speaker 1: that your table didn't eat at dinner and weighing it. Gross,

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Speaker 1: for sure, it's also eye opening. Most people waste food

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Speaker 1: without realizing it. Weighing what you throw away is one

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Speaker 1: way of drawing your attention to how much you waste

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Speaker 1: so you can do better in the future. You can

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Speaker 1: do something similar at home or at work, but without

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Speaker 1: the ick factor from the camp experiment. Every now and then,

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Speaker 1: take a peek at your trash cans and see what

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Speaker 1: gets thrown away. No need for all out dumpster diving.

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Speaker 1: Just take a look and notice what's in there. For example,

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Speaker 1: your kitchen garbage can may reveal that you're throwing away

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Speaker 1: a lot of fruits and veggies. That's a common problem.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it turns out that you're buying more produced than

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Speaker 1: you need, or maybe you had good intentions of eating

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Speaker 1: those salad greens, but they went limp before lunchtime on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Once you identify the problem, you can come up with

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Speaker 1: a plan, like going to the grocery store more often,

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Speaker 1: or planning your meals to eat the most perishable foods first.

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Speaker 1: Another common realization, you're throwing away lots of food from plates.

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Speaker 1: A better approach might be serving people a little less.

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Speaker 1: They can always go back for seconds, so there's no

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Speaker 1: need to over fill plates the first time around. Maybe

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Speaker 1: your trash features an astonishing number of the blocked bags.

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Speaker 1: Could you buy a few more glass storage containers so

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Speaker 1: you need to use plastic less often? Or as you

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Speaker 1: peek in your kids trash cans, you may notice lots

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Speaker 1: of paper getting thrown away. Encourage your kids to color

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the paper and connect that behavior

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Speaker 1: to preserving the pretty trees in your neighborhood park. At work,

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Speaker 1: a binful of file folders and binder clips can nudge

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Speaker 1: you to set an office norm for reusing office supplies.

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Speaker 1: Whether people care about the environment or not, they'd probably

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Speaker 1: rather have that money and paychecks than going into the trash.

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Speaker 1: If you survey what you're throwing away every now and then,

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Speaker 1: you can adjust what you buy and adjust how you

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Speaker 1: use it so that you're wasting less. This saves money

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Speaker 1: and it is better for the earth, and well it

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Speaker 1: feels efficient and I'm all about living a more streamlined life.

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Speaker 1: How do you avoid waste at home and at work?

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Speaker 1: You can let me know at Before Breakfast podcast at

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Speaker 1: i heeart media dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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