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Reblogged: How to Eat Apples Nose to Tail

October 22March 15Posted in Food, zero wasteTagged apples, cosmetic, food, how to, produce, recipe, tips, ugly fruit and vegetables, vinegar, Waste, zero wasteLeave a comment

Reblogged: How to Eat Apples Nose to Tail | ecogreenlove

Originally article by The Zero-Waste Chef

Reblogged: How to Eat Apples Nose to Tail | ecogreenlove — Save all the apple peels and cores in one big glass jars. Add a tablespoon of sugar, fill the jar with water and now have homemade scrap vinegar brewing away. You can find a detailed post on scrap vinegar here.

Some facts we can’t pass sharing:

According to the NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council):

40 percent of food goes to waste in the US
Wasted food rotting in landfill accounts for 25 percent of US methane emissions
Wasted food squanders 25 percent of all US freshwater
1 in 6 Americans is food insecure
A mere 15 percent of this food could feed 25 million Americans every year

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