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“#How cooking in quarantine could help tackle climate change<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n CHICAGO\/LONDON \u2013 Clint Parry ransacked every kitchen cupboard and scoured all corners of his fridge during lockdown in Detroit, hunting for lost ingredients and leftovers to whip up meals.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old is one of many people across the world to have embraced thriftiness and cut down on food waste during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts. They say the new habits if maintained, will provide a major boost in tackling another global crisis: climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are using virtually all of our leftovers, where we used to waste food because we would forget to pack it and just pick up fast food on a lunch break,\u201d said Parry, who is married and works as a master model builder at Legoland in Michigan.<\/p>\n

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that a third of the world\u2019s food is wasted every year. Forests are cleared, fuel is burnt and packaging in produced just to provide food which is thrown away. Meanwhile, rotting food in landfills releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

As a result, food waste is responsible for around 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a similar amount to road transportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next crisis will be the climate crisis and the best thing you can do as a consumer is reduce food waste,\u201d said Toine Timmermans, program manager for sustainable food chains at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Household food waste in Britain, to take one country, fell significantly in the early phase of the lockdown in April with just 14 percent of four key items \u2013 bread, chicken, milk and potatoes \u2013 thrown away, according to research by environmental group WRAP, which conducted thousands of interviews.<\/p>\n

Pre-lockdown, an average of 24 percent had been wasted.<\/p>\n

Waste had begun to rebound by June, with a second WRAP survey putting waste of those products at 18 percent, but remained significantly below pre-lockdown levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough people are reporting wasting more food as restrictions lift \u2026 the positive news<\/a> is that 70 percent of people want to maintain their new-found food management behaviors in the long term,\u201d said Richard Swannell, director at WRAP Global which works with governments to reduce food waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an encouraging sign that people are taking this opportunity to adopt less wasteful habits in life after lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plan more, cook more<\/strong><\/p>\n

Food security has been a major concern during the pandemic as consumers panic-bought basic goods, migrant workers struggled to get to the fields, meat-packing plants shut and farm goods produced for shuttered restaurants rotted.<\/p>\n

But the lower household food waste has been one bright spot.<\/p>\n

Out of necessity, consumers have become more organized in planning menus, developed new cooking skills, checked their cupboards and fridges more before they shop and found better ways to use up leftovers, according to food waste experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people have been forced to do during the pandemic is plan ahead because they\u2019re now shopping less frequently,\u201d said Dana Gunders, executive director at ReFED, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing wasted food across the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re being forced to cook more and build those cooking skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laura Brooks, a stay-at-home mother of five in Weymouth, Massachusetts, said she had developed useful habits during the lockdown that she would keep.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as things go back to normal, I may continue with less frequent shopping trip<\/a>s. When I go more often, I find that the new produce pushes the old produce out of sight and things get wasted more easily,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Increased frugality could prove a valuable habit in the economic and unemployment crisis caused by the pandemic; Gunders said a family of four in the United States was estimated to throw out food worth about $1,800 a year.<\/p>\n

Too good for the bin<\/strong><\/p>\n

A survey from Germany\u2019s Food and Agriculture Ministry also showed consumers had started to show more concern about wasting food during the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n

The government had launched an anti-food waste campaign called \u201cToo good for the bin\u201d before the crisis, urging the public not to automatically throw food away after the sell-by date but to smell and taste it to see if it was still in good condition.<\/p>\n

The ministry\u2019s survey, undertaken during the pandemic, found that 91 percent of German consumers questioned were now checking food after its sell-by date and not automatically throwing it away.<\/p>\n

This compared to only 76 percent in a similar survey in 2016.<\/p>\n

Food waste is not restricted to the home but it is the biggest source in many countries.<\/p>\n

The European Union has published a study estimating that 53 percent of food waste was in households and 11 percent in production, with the balance in areas such as processing and retailing.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s President Xi Jingping said this month that the amount of food wasted in China was \u201cshocking\u201d, prompting many local governments to launch related campaigns.<\/p>\n

For Parry in Detroit and many others, thrift is here to stay.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur food costs have definitely gone way down, since we are not buying out when we have perfectly consumable leftovers in the fridge at home,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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