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Since 1915, food waste has been identified as a considerable problem and has been the subject of ongoing media attention, intensifying with the launch of the "Love Food, Hate Waste" campaign in 2007. Food waste has been discussed in newspaper articles, news reports and television programmes, which have increased awareness of it as a public issue.
According to the EAP, on average, at least a quarter of our waste is food. Some options to reduce this area of waste include freezing uneaten food, learning to store food so it lasts longer, and more.
Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign, launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme in 2007, with the aim of reducing the amount of food waste in the United Kingdom. [1] The campaign has been promoted and circulated by many green sites. [ 2 ]
The Yule log is recorded in the folklore archives of much of England, but particularly in collections covering the West Country and the North Country. [11] For example, in his section regarding "Christmas Observances", J. B. Partridge recorded then-current (1914) Christmas customs in Yorkshire, Britain involving the Yule log as related by "Mrs. Day, Minchinhampton (Gloucestershire), a native ...
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Many of the methods suggested by current campaigns to prevent food waste have taken inspiration from those of World War II. [3] [10] [11] Despite this, it remains debatable whether the waste campaigns and rationing, during and post-WWII, achieved any long-term change in people's attitudes towards waste; WRAP's 2007report on domestic household waste found that older people generate as much ...
The 2018 WWF report on food waste in Chinese cities shows that a total of 17–18 million tons of food are wasted annually in Chinese cities. On average, each citizen wastes 93 grams of food per meal in the cities surveyed (Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Lhasa), in which vegetables and staple foods constitute the majority of the waste.
The Sears Wish Book was a popular Christmas-themed catalog released annually by the American department store chain Sears in August or September. The catalog contained toys and other holiday-related merchandise. The first Sears Wish Book was published in 1933 [1] and was a separate catalog from the annual Sears Christmas catalog.