Pledge to reduce food waste

A woman from Southdown has won a pounds50 voucher with a pledgeto reduce the amount of food she ends up throwing away.

Dawn Head won the prize as part of Bath and North East SomersetCouncil's support for the national Love Food, Hate Waste campaign.

Dozens of local residents submitted their ideas on how they wouldreduce the amount of food they throw away.

The ideas were collected by the council at its recyclingroadshows and community events where residents were also told how toprevent some of their uncooked food waste, such as vegetablepeelings and fruit waste, going to landfill by composting at home.

The voucher can be spent in the Harvest Natural Foods store inWalcot Street.

The average family throws away pounds610 of food shopping a year.

Ms Head said: "My pledge was to make a list before I go foodshopping and to check that my fridge is between 1C and 5C (34F to41F) so that it stores things properly. I was delighted to win thevoucher."