VOICE’s Feeding the 5,000 Dublin event and campaign on food waste featured on latest Eco Eye programme with Duncan Stewart. Check it out here. Tweet Tweet
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ECO EYE PROGRAMME ON FOOD WASTE
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WHAT IS YOUR FOOD PRINT???
5 Small Ways to Start a Food Waste Revolution… What is your ‘food print’? I have been reading numerous food waste articles daily and the web is awash with studies and reports on the amount of food waste we are all creating along food cycle. To be honest, it can be depressing as well as [...]
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VIDEO OF OUR FEEDING THE 5,000 EVENT
Have a look at our video of our Feeding 5k Dublin event. Tweet Tweet
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Here are some photos of the Feeding 5k Dublin Event…
Thank you to all our volunteers for helping out both on Friday the 23rd November chopping vegetables in DIT and on Sat the 24th in Wolfe Tone Park. We couldn’t have held such a successful event without you! And thank you to the people who came out to eat our curry and to support our [...]
WE FED 5,000 ON THE 24TH NOVEMBER!
VOICE, along with EPA Stop Food Waste, Food Glorious Food and Bia Foodbank had a wonderful day feeding 5,000 people last Saturday the 24th November. Wolfe Tone Park was a fantastic venue and there was a great buzz around the place. We had over 20 volunteers on Friday chopping nearly 800 kg of vegetables with [...]
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Scary Food Facts!
Given our world’s limited natural resources, food waste is a major concern. Here are some facts about food waste & natural resources that offer some food for thought: § Wasted food accounts for more than a quarter of total freshwater consumption globally. § If trees were planted on the land currently used to grow surplus [...]
PLEASE LOOK AT OUR NEW VIDEO ABOUT FEEDING THE 5,000 DUBLIN!
We have produced a new video about our Feeding the 5,000 Dublin courtesy of Eamonn O’Brien of The Reluctant Speakers Club, a leading provider of public speaking courses. Please view and share! Feeding the 5,000 video Tweet Tweet
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VOICE LAUNCHES FEEDING THE 5,000 DUBLIN EVENT
VOICE and our partners EPA Stop Food Waste, Bia Foodbank and Food Glorious Food launched our Feeding the 5,0000 Dublin event on Wednesday the 7th November at the Church Restaurant. It was a wonderful venue where we sampled a vegetable curry similar to the one that will be eaten on the day. Curry meals were also [...]
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DUBLIN HARVEST FESTIVAL 2012
Like an oak tree, a national movement or campaign is only as strong as its roots, and the grassroots community garden movement has demonstrated that it is going from strength to strength in Ireland. As shown last Saturday, 29th Sept, in Wolfe Tone Park, local Dublin Community Growers confirmed their commitment to local efforts in [...]
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Support our Feeding 5,000 Dublin Event
Join us on the 24th of November, 2012 at Wolfe Tone Park from noon as we attempt to feed 5,000 people free of charge with food that would have been thrown away because of aesthetics, blemishes, damaged packaging or short expiration dates. We will prove that this is still value (and taste) in such food and highlight [...]
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Stop Food Waste Survey
There is a new on-line survey being done at the moment for Stop Food Waste with the chance to win a €200 voucher for a Green Hospitality certified hotel. Help them with the research! Tweet Tweet
WHEN IS FOOD SAFE? – EXPLORING ‘BEST BEFORE’ DATES
Have you ever been completely confused over the expiry dates on the food we buy? There is the ‘sell by’ date, the ‘use by’ date, the ‘best before’ date…how can we ensure that the food we’re eating is safe and that we are not throwing out perfectly good food just because of the date on [...]
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VOICE Winter Newsletter 2011
As we come to the end of another successful year, it’s hard to believe Christmas is almost upon as again.
This year has been very busy for VOICE with a lot of our work done on policy issues, telling the Government what we think they should be doing differently. In this edition of our Newsletter we give you an update on the promised climate change bill on page 1 and you can read about the rest of our policy work on pages 6 and 7.
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UK plans labelling change to cut food waste
The UK government is preparing to make significant changes to food labelling practices in an effort to reduce food waste. The new guidelines issued last month will simplify date marks to make it easier for shoppers to know when food can be eaten and when it should be thrown away. The new guidelines recommend that [...]
We Throw Away a Third of Our Food Away – And It’s Polluting Our Country
Our Coordinator at VOICE, Tara Connolly has written an article appearing in the Journal on Ireland’s problem with food waste. Read on to find out more about the environmental implications of throwing one third of our food away and what can be done about it.
The Journal, 4 August 2011
IMAGINE THE SCENE: you come home from your weekly food shop at the supermarket. You unpack the food you have just bought and put it on a table. You divide the food into three piles and throw one pile into the bin. It sounds like an act of madness but this is, effectively, what the average Irish household does every week.
According to the EPA, a third of all food bought by households ends up as food waste. But the scale of the problem is much larger with food waste created along the food supply chain and in commercial enterprises, such as canteens and restaurants.