Over the last 10 years, Society has moved quickly from a position of almost total reliance on landfill for managing waste to a high level of recovery of certain recyclable materials, with complex waste flows to and between different waste recycling and recovery activities. 

Organic food waste going to landfill results in methane and leachate by-products. Methane is one of the six greenhouse gases associated with Climate Change and in fact is 20 TIMES more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide, the oft cited greenhouse gas.

The most effective action we can take is to reduce the waste we produce in the first place. We can avoid plastic packaging and single-use items such as disposable coffee cups as well as making shopping lists to cut down on the amount of food waste we generate.