Zero Waste Cafes for Food Waste Action Week
Some news from Eco Savvy about their Zero Waste Cafes this month, including two pop-up cafes, for Food Waste Action Week:
We are running a couple of ‘pop-up’ cafes as part of Food Waste Action Week this Saturday 4th March from 11am-1pm at the Arran High School in Lamlash and next Tuesday 7th March at the Ormidale Pavilion from 12pm-6pm.
At both cafes you can expect:
- Tasty soup served with bakehouse bread, homebaking, teas and coffees
- Our range of Zero Waste goods including: flour, oats, pasta, rice, red lentils, broth mix, gram flour and quinoa (BYO containers!)
- Tinned items
- Locally grown produce (seasonally available)
- Seeds available for you to take away
- Cookies for children to decorate
- Everything is available on a suggested donation basis.
Jess and Donna will be there to discuss ways of avoiding food waste. If you have any questions about how to use up some items you have at home please don’t hesitate to ask, we’ve got lots of lovely recipe ideas and cooking ‘hacks’ to share!
If you’re not sure what the cafe is all about then check out our video here: shorturl.at/nJZ24
Our Green Islands project team will be at both events demonstrating some energy efficient appliances and the lovely Gerard and Wally from our Active Travel team will have e-bikes available for you to try!
Our friends at the The Arran Pioneer Project will be holding an open day at their Cordon community garden from 2pm- 4pm after the cafe on Saturday. A volunteer will be at the high school at 1.30pm to walk folk along to the garden. If you haven’t seen this beautiful growing space we definitely recommend checking it out!
Food Waste Action Week from 6th – 12th March is the third annual campaign by Love Food Hate Waste and this year a whole week of action is dedicated to shining a light on how simple behaviours to reduce food waste can save time and money.
This will ultimately reduce the impact of food waste on climate change. 4.5 million tonnes of edible food is thrown away each year by UK households. 25% of this wasted food is due to cooking, preparing or serving too much – this costs UK households £3.5 billion each year.
The campaign aims to increase citizens’ confidence in ‘using up leftovers’ by promoting a range of skills that can be easily adopted but potentially have the greatest impact on reducing food waste in the home.
And here are the March dates for the ZWC around the island:
More food waste action with the Eco Savvy FoodShare
Eco’s Savvy’s Food Share with the Coop is another amazing way the Arran community are working to save food from going to waste. Here are the days and times where it will be around the island. The new location for the Food Share on Friday evenings is the Arran High School.
