Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to see what gets thrown away so
Speaker 1: you can increase efficiency and reduce waste. If you went
Speaker 1: to camp as a kid, you may have vivid memories
Speaker 1: of a common experiment, being asked to collect the food
Speaker 1: that your table didn't eat at dinner and weighing it. Gross,
Speaker 1: for sure, it's also eye opening. Most people waste food
Speaker 1: without realizing it. Weighing what you throw away is one
Speaker 1: way of drawing your attention to how much you waste
Speaker 1: so you can do better in the future. You can
Speaker 1: do something similar at home or at work, but without
Speaker 1: the ick factor from the camp experiment. Every now and then,
Speaker 1: take a peek at your trash cans and see what
Speaker 1: gets thrown away. No need for all out dumpster diving.
Speaker 1: Just take a look and notice what's in there. For example,
Speaker 1: your kitchen garbage can may reveal that you're throwing away
Speaker 1: a lot of fruits and veggies. That's a common problem.
Speaker 1: Maybe it turns out that you're buying more produced than
Speaker 1: you need, or maybe you had good intentions of eating
Speaker 1: those salad greens, but they went limp before lunchtime on Friday.
Speaker 1: Once you identify the problem, you can come up with
Speaker 1: a plan, like going to the grocery store more often,
Speaker 1: or planning your meals to eat the most perishable foods first.
Speaker 1: Another common realization, you're throwing away lots of food from plates.
Speaker 1: A better approach might be serving people a little less.
Speaker 1: They can always go back for seconds, so there's no
Speaker 1: need to over fill plates the first time around. Maybe
Speaker 1: your trash features an astonishing number of the blocked bags.
Speaker 1: Could you buy a few more glass storage containers so
Speaker 1: you need to use plastic less often? Or as you
Speaker 1: peek in your kids trash cans, you may notice lots
Speaker 1: of paper getting thrown away. Encourage your kids to color
Speaker 1: on both sides of the paper and connect that behavior
Speaker 1: to preserving the pretty trees in your neighborhood park. At work,
Speaker 1: a binful of file folders and binder clips can nudge
Speaker 1: you to set an office norm for reusing office supplies.
Speaker 1: Whether people care about the environment or not, they'd probably
Speaker 1: rather have that money and paychecks than going into the trash.
Speaker 1: If you survey what you're throwing away every now and then,
Speaker 1: you can adjust what you buy and adjust how you
Speaker 1: use it so that you're wasting less. This saves money
Speaker 1: and it is better for the earth, and well it
Speaker 1: feels efficient and I'm all about living a more streamlined life.
Speaker 1: How do you avoid waste at home and at work?
Speaker 1: You can let me know at Before Breakfast podcast at
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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