 we've got to really acknowledge that this excessive use of or waste of food rather than use of food that we don't need and we buy far more than we use before we go shopping get a list of what we're going to use don't just buy it on the off chance that you might use it buy it with a purpose make a big difference to the amount of emissions that we have and really have a great impact on our carbon footprint. I think it's got to be about what you buy I am as guilty of this as anybody sometimes you might think you want to be super healthy for example so you buy loads more fruit and veg and then you're not able to use it so it's about being realistic when you go shopping erring on the side of caution but also if you do see that you've got too much food you can cook it up and freeze it and then it doesn't need to go to waste also then when you're having a tough day it's handy there in the freezer to use you should be very concerned about the amount of food that's going to waste I think it's really important that people begin to understand the link between the food that they waste and greenhouse gas emissions and the fact that there are less food we waste we can lower our greenhouse gas emissions which will have an impact on the climate so some research recently done by rap shows that something like 81 percent of us are concerned about the climate but only 37 percent of us realize the link between wasting food and greenhouse gas emissions so alerting people to that is really important