Repeat, start again!

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As individuals, we can make a change in our daily habits to help reduce our food waste. 

You do not need to put so much effort into it, you could just freeze your organic scraps and share them with your neighbor, who may know how to compost to feed the garden.


The key to all this process is to be more conscious and give a second chance to a kind of waste that we cannot avoid creating because every inhabitant cooks and eats.


Now, you do not have any excuse to start putting this information into action to make a positive impact on your surroundings.

So, next time you have veggies’ peels and ends after cooking, think twice before throwing them in the bin to give them a new life. 


Here there is a video for you to have more ideas and tips to reuse your scraps. 100 WAYS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE YOU HAVE TO TRY - YouTube


 

Repeating all the processes is essential to making a difference. 


 

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