{"id":1039,"date":"2021-09-28T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastbrightonfoodcoop.uk\/?page_id=1039"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:06:31","slug":"food-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbrightonfoodcoop.uk\/?page_id=1039","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Food & Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Every week EBFC collect and redistribute surplus free fresh food across the city to other community groups and also cook with it ourselves in our citywide delivered meal service.<\/h4>\r\n

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Roast surplus yellow cherry tomatoes\u00a0 on donated baked potato with baked beans, fresh spinach and cheddar cheese – so many fantastic surplus tomatoes we are making our own baked beans with roast tomato and pinto beans and also lots and lots of tomato sauce!<\/p>\r\n

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The great strawberry give away! 10 palletes of free fresh strawberries donated by UK Harvest, being unloaded and redistributed to over 30 community groups in the city by East Brighton Food Co-op over 2 days!\u00a0<\/h4>\r\n

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EBFC have diverted over 1200+tonnes of food surplus since March 2020 from going into landfill and redistributed it across the communities of Brighton & Hove and have also made 300,000+ delicious fresh, nutritious healthy meals for our Citywide Community Meals on Wheels Service.<\/h4>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That’s the equivalent of 135 African bull bush elephants<\/strong> or 4\u00a0beautiful blue whales<\/strong> or 50 terrifying T Rex’s <\/strong>or 120 hungry hippos<\/strong>…and counting<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

34% of all green house gases come from man made food systems. At the moment an estimated one third of all food produced in the world goes to waste, that would be enough calories to feed every under nourished person on planet earth but wasted food isn’t just a social and humanitarian concern, it’s an environmental one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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We are very pleased indeed to compost all our kitchen food waste from our community meals on wheels kitchen, creating beautiful compost to grow, herbs, vegetables and fruit.\u00a0 All our meal tubs are recyclable which is fantastic for our diners, us and the environment.\u00a0 Thank you to the Climate Action Lottery Fund for your support and all the other food groups locally for your help.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When we waste food we also waste the water and the energy it takes to grow, harvest, transport and package it. At the EBFC we don’t do things by halves, in the past 4 years we have converted 700+ tonnes of surplus food destined for landfill into over 300,000+ meals and we are still cooking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Cooking for the workers –<\/strong> Friends of Whitehawk Hill did some serious hacking back of scrub! Refreshments and gourmet food for all from EBFC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Every week EBFC collect and redistribute surplus free fresh food across the city to other community groups and also cook with it ourselves in our citywide delivered meal service.   Roast surplus yellow cherry tomatoes\u00a0 on donated baked potato with baked beans, fresh spinach and cheddar cheese – so many fantastic surplus tomatoes we are … <\/p>\n

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