There are so many things I could write about that are food related for the Blog Action Day theme of climate change. I’m sure a lot of food bloggers are writing about eating less meat, eating local and organics, and that’s all great. But I’m going to focus on something a lot of people probably wouldn’t think twice about when it comes to their food: packaging.
When I lived in Australia, I began buying more fresh food than ever in my life because of the abundance of fresh food/farmers markets and fruit and veg shops. Most butcher shops there didn’t use styrofoam packing trays for their meat, although the grocery stores did. What I noticed quite quickly was how little trash my husband and I were creating because we ate so much fresh food.
There were very few cans, boxes and bottles in our garbage. What few I did use, made it into the recycle bin because South Australia had a wonderful curbside recycling program. We’d get to the end of another week and have only a puny bag of garbage to go in our great big wheelie bin. It made me feel virtuous.
So the moral of this story is that fresh food is not only good for you, it’s good for the environment, too, because it cuts down on the packaging filling our landfills that will hang out there for who knows how long.
