Minimize your kitchen's carbon footprint

Today it is more important than ever before to minimise your carbon footprint. Here a few easy tips to reduce your kitchen's carbon footprint.

Buy local produce and plant a garden

Support your local farmers by buying locally grown fruits and vegetables. The most polluting aspects of food transport is flying food in to the UK from warmer countries. Try your hand at a vegetable patch. Gardening in the fresh air might just give you a deeper appreciation of nature.

Season your diet

Cooking in Season is a wonderful way to eat the freshest foods possible and avoid unnecessary airfreight.

The strawberries will taste that much better in the summer sun.

Buy organic

Who really wants to eat pesticides on their apples, and chemicals in there salads. Soil quality is also effected by unnatural fertilizers and additives. Keep it real and keep it organic.

Don't buy over packaged products

Cut out the frills and gimmicks, and buy what you need. Avoid extra packaging, and look for eco-friendly packaging like corn plastics. Also it is a good idea to bring your own carrier bags when shopping.

Two bins in the kitchen

Keep two bins in your kitchen so its easy to separate garbage from recycling. Its amazing how much garbage you can minimize and don't forget to reuse old containers and jars.

Eat Vegetarian sometimes

Did you know that a gazing cow can produce one ton of methane in just eight months. That's the same amount of green-house gases produced by driving 1,900 miles in a mid-sized car! By reducing the demand for meat production, animals will have less of an impact on global warming.

Bottled water

Don't buy bottled water if your tap water is safe to drink (especially if it has been shipped from far away)

The bottle is wasted plastic, and it might have been shipped from far away. A water filter is a great way to take impurities out of tap water.

Compost your scraps

Instead of throwing your orenge peels, coffee grinds, egg shells and other organic waste into a landfill, put them in your compost. If you don’t have a yard, consider using an indoor worm bin. Composting offers the obvious benefits of resource efficiency and creating a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled.

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