Win £150 by Completing Our "CUT YOUR CARBON" Food Shopping and Waste Reduction Survey!!!
The Cumbernauld News and Kilsyth Chronicle ( Kirkintilloch Herald ) have joined forces with Kelvin Valley Honey to give you the chance to win £150 of food vouchers exchangeable at participating local independent food retailers in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth area ( Kirkintilloch, Kilsyth, Bishopbriggs, Lenzie, Milton of Campsie areas ).
Each year every household in Scotland throws away £600 in perfectly edible, in date, food. When you buy a packet of green beans from Kenya you are contributing 1,881lbs of C02 to the atmosphere by way of the 4,828 air miles taken to deliver it from grower to table. Each trip by car to the supermarket pumps yet more carbon into the atmosphere contributing to the causes of climate change. Every Scottish household creates an average of 8.28 tonnes of Carbon (per family of 4) through their food shopping and food waste habits. C02 is the greatest single contributor to climate change.
The easy option is to sit back and lay the blame entirely on the worst offenders of; oil and gas power stations, heavy industry and air travel, believing that individually and collectively whatever we do won't make much of a difference.
We couldn't be more wrong. Just by changing our travel habits, walking those short journeys rather than taking the car, turning home heating down by a couple of degrees and by changing our food shopping and food waste habits we will start to make a difference. If everyone in the UK started increasing their local shopping, recycling today's leftover food into tomorrow's meal, having a meat free day and composting food waste would be the equivalent saving in carbon or C02 emissions of taking 25% of all the cars off the road each year.
We'd like you to do your bit in halting the pace of climate change by making some small changes in your food shopping and food waste disposal habits. It's easier than you think and to encourage you to take action we're offering you the chance of winning £150 of food vouchers simply by completing and returning this questionnaire. What's more we'll give you the chance of cutting a £100 a month off your household food bills with our monthly food diary free prize draw competition.
To enter this month's Free Prize Draw Competition simply complete our "Cut Your Carbon" Food Shopping and Waste Reduction Survey.
To qualify for inclusion in our FREE competition, completed questionnaires must reach us no later than 30th June 2011. Please click here for full competition rules.
