Unfortunately throwing out the garbage, we don't get rid of it! Garbage comes back to us in the form of air pollution, it poisons the soil and water. Even food waste after putrefaction pollutes the atmosphere with suffocating gas and groundwater with the toxic filtrate (“Food Loss and Food Waste”). Moreover, food waste can be an ideal environment for various kinds of microbes, flies, cockroaches, and rats that are carriers of dangerous diseases.
Nowadays, many food banks collect leftover food from hotels and restaurants in order to give it to the needy. The other most common way to use food waste is composting in order to get fertilizer or soil additives. Nevertheless, I would like to tell what everyone can do for the reducing of the amount of food waste. For example, you like to drink a cup of freshly brewed coffee at the beginning of the long day? But not everyone knows that the coffee grounds, that we usually throw away, can be useful in your backyard. It can be used for a top dressing of flowers, as well as the shell of boiled eggs which contains calcium and magnesium which also are very useful to fertilize the soil. Therefore, it is necessary to grind eggshells and add it to the ground to saturate the soil with a set of useful minerals. The citrus peel can be added to smoothies, as well as use against insects. In the housekeeping fresh apple cleanings can help to clear aluminum pans. Throwing out skins from fruits we don't think that dried apple and citrus skins can become fragrant tea. I am sure that, if everyone will pay attention to the problem of food waste, it will be much easier to solve it on a global scale.
Works Cited
“Food Loss and Food Waste”. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Web. Accessed 14 Apr 2016 at <http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/>
