One way to reduce food waste is to shop where you can buy just the quantity you need, and where you're not obliged to accept excessive packaging.

'Green Gather' - food waste and what we can do to reduce it

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The EPA estimates that Ireland generated 750,000 tonnes of food waste in 2022 (read more here). From production to transportation and from packaging to disposal, there are obvious problems in real economic and environmental terms.

They might seem like huge problems, to be resolved by people in suits in faraway boardrooms, but there are lots of things we can do to mitigate them, and influence real change in the long term.

Mullingar Climate Action Network and Westmeath Environmental and climate Action Network (WECAN) are organising a morning of conversations and presentations about food and how we deal with it.

Anna Browne (bigskyflowers.ie) is a local flower farmer and RTÉ ‘local hero’, known for her workshops and classes on various sustainability topics.

Kim Darby runs The Refill Mill (therefillmill.ie), a minimal waste shop where you can buy just the amount of an ingredient you need, without the excessive packaging that seems to be obligatory everywhere else.

Jack O’Sullivan is a founding member of Zero Waste Alliance Ireland and Westmeath Environmental and Climate Action Network (WECAN) and has been an environmental advocate for many years.

Join Anna, Kim and Jack, as well as members of MCAN and WECAN in Mullingar Library from 10.30am on Saturday November 16 for food-related presentations.

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