Thread by @emptykitchens

With yesterday being #InternationalFoodLossandWasteAwarenessDay it is a wake up for all of us to look at how we contribute to, or combat food waste. That said, it's never as simple as it seems.

We've rescued somewhere in the region of 250,000kg's in food since we set up.

250 tons is nothing to sniff at but considering Edinburgh alone wastes 46,000 tons of food a year it's a drop in the increasingly polluted ocean.

As a wise man said "Food is a good" and from where we're standing it's clear we could be converting our waste to abolish hunger.

It was this realisation that 2 problems can actually make one solution that inspired us to create EKFH and if applied well, we truly believe our model could be rolled out in every town across the land.

But we digress..

What helps when tackling an issue is identifying the cause.

Major supermarkets want you and the government to believe they are only responsible for 2% of food waste.

2% from the sources of 98% of our food shopping...

Not wanting to bite the hand that feeds us. A good chunk of our ingredients come from supermarkets.

They come through operations like our buds @FShareCSEScot. However, supermarkets use this "touched you last" mentality to divest themselves of hundreds of tons of responsibility.

Then you take a step back and ask, where did the food come from and how much was wasted on the way?

Now you'll see the real waste stack up, as it’s cheaper to pay un-supported farmers in the global south, waste as much as 50% of the food in the field and ship what survives here than it is to buy locally in the first place.

And we're not talking about exotic produce.

Next time you're in a supermarket, look for where the apples have come from. Apples! Which grow in abundance here, shipped in from as far as South Africa! Year round!

While Scotland has 880 disused orchards!

So ask yourself, who's really responsible for #foodwaste?

#FLWDay