Sustainability
Systems &
strategies
Food Sustainability
What is sustainability?
What is What is SustainabilitySustainability
https://youtu.be/zx04Kl8y4dE
Sustainability
The ability to maintain a
certain rate or level and avoid
the depletion of natural
resources to maintain an
ecological balance.
Other definitions of Sustainability
What is sustainability?
• Sustainability is the process of living within the limits of available
physical, natural and social resources in ways that allow the living
systems in which humans are embedded to thrive.
• Sustainability means meeting our own needs without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.
• Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain
an ecological balance.
R’s of Sustainability
• What are the 6 R’s of sustainability? Research online?
1. R
2. R
3. R
4. R
5. R
6. R
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luE5Aeqjf1Q
6 R’s
• With a person next to you reflect on:
• Discuss the sustainability strategies that you have used before at home and at school.
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Rethink
Download the worksheet:
6Rs-of-Sustainability-WORKSHEET
https://youtu.be/luIQGJIo_Wc
How can you be more sustainable in the Food
and Hospitality industry?
What can we do in HEC to be sustainable?
Bring your own container and cutlery
What can go in your compost bin?
• Tea bags/Coffee grounds
• Fruit/Veg scraps & peel
• Food left overs/scraps
• Egg shells
• Dairy products
• Meat scraps & bones
Food
waste
Recycling
Recycling can be useful as it:
• Reduces that amount of general waste that needs to be
removed from the site
• Reduces the amount of rubbish that goes into landfill
• Assists the environment by reusing materials
Mise-en-place (collecting ingredients)
Manage resources with a sustainability mindset.
1. Be organized.
2. Only collect the ingredients that you need, this includes
managing the usage of:
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Gas
Electricity
Water
Time
Food
Food wastage
Measuring accurately prevents wastage
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Accurate measuring:
Scraping excess flour
away with the flat
side of a butter knife.
• Prevents wastage
of flour.
• Stops product from
being too dry.
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• Wastes ingredients.
• Dries product out.
• May cause other
ingredients to be used
to balance texture of
food, e.g. add more
milk. Creating more
wastage.
• Uses more of earths
energy though more
flour being processed
and delivered.
List the wasted resources
If you waste an ingredient, what type of earth’s
resources are used?