Climate Change
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100
True or false? Methane is 25x more harmful to the environment than CO2
True
100
Are these bananas completely safe and healthy to eat, or should you throw them away?
The bananas are completely healthy to eat and are considered ideal for goods such as banana bread and muffins. However, if bananas have mold, smell rotten, have black insides or are leaking fluids then they have possibly gone bad
100
What is surplus edible food?
Extra leftover food that is edible. 96% of surplus edible food is wasted.
200
Food can decompose and produce methane. Where does this most commonly happen?
Landfill
200
If a best before date has passed for a food item, what is true about that food item?
a) It’s not safe to consume, throw it away
b) It may have lost some freshness/quality, but hasn't necessarily gone bad
b) It may have lost some freshness/quality, but hasn't necessarily gone bad
Best before does not mean bad after, so don't automatically throw something away just because the best before date passed a couple days ago.
200
True or false? Best before and expiry dates mean the same thing.
False. Best before dates are different to expiry dates.
300
What percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are related to food?
a) 10%
b) 15%
c) 20%
d) 25%
d) 25%
300
True or false? The only foods in Canada that are required to have expiry dates are baby formula, meal replacements, supplements and prescription liquid diets.
True. All other food is not required to have an expiry date in Canada, although some foods might.
300
What percent of wasted food in Canada is edible?
a) 10%
b) 20%
c) 30%
d) 40%
d) 40%
400
What are the 2 main ways food waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions?
Food waste causes more food to be produced/transported, food waste produces methane.
400
Name 2 things you can do regularly to reduce your home’s food waste.
Only serve/buy what is needed, donate to foundations such as Food Stash, eat leftovers, inform your family about food waste, others
400
Approximately what percent of food produced in Canada is wasted?
a) 30%
b) 40%
c) 50%
D)60%
c) 50%
500
Food produces methane in the absence of what?
Oxygen
500
Rank these actions from best use of food to worst:
a) Compost
b) Send to landfill
c) Serve/buy only what is needed
d) Donate food
e) Feed animals
c, d, e, a, b
500
If food production/waste were a country, what rank would it place by yearly greenhouse gas emissions?
Food production would be third. China produces over 10 billion tonnes of CO2 annually, followed by the US at 6 billion tonnes and then food production/waste at 3 billion tonnes of CO2.