Research has found that over the Christmas period more than 250,000 turkeys are wasted, along with 7.5 million mince pies, and 170 tonnes of Brussel sprouts.
Furthermore, on average UK tea drinkers get through 165 million cups of tea a day, and you can imagine a peak period is over Christmas. A kettle takes a minimum of two minutes 20 seconds to boil a litre of water, so you could be wasting valuable festive games time with your family, while you are waiting for the kettle to boil, again.
What’s more, according to the Energy Saving Trust, 40 per cent of households boil the kettle at least four times a day, with 75 per cent admitting to boiling more water than they need; accounting for a significant amount of water and energy wasted every year.
This Christmas, we are encouraging consumers and our trade partners to make positive lifestyle changes that they can carry through to 2020.
We are committed to producing lifestyle enhancing solutions, which encourage the efficient use of water, are safe within the home and reduce the impact that food and plastic waste has on landfill sites and the wider environment.
A sustainable approach to food waste at Christmas
The first approach to food waste should always be to reuse it where possible.
To minimise waste, you can re-use leftovers for creating dishes such as bubble and squeak, or turkey pie, however despite our best efforts a proportion of food waste, such as vegetable peelings, is inevitable.
We’ve even developed an infographic that shares a few Christmas leftover recipes to get you started.
Meal preparation almost always results in some form of unavoidable food waste. From Chicken bones through to vegetable peelings, it can’t all be repurposed into delicious Boxing Day snack.
An InSinkErator food waste disposer is the ideal solution for disposing of inedible food waste when home composting is not possible. A food waste disposer fits discreetly under your sink and grinds food waste into very fine particles that are flushed through your plumbing to wastewater treatment, where biogas can be recovered.