Tips Of the Week

 ■  Separate food waste from the lunch boxes/cutlery/containers to facilitate food waste recycling
 ■  Avoid using one-off/disposable utensils and lunch boxes

 ■   Father’s Love - No Condition ; Father’s Day - No Leftover

 ■   Donate surplus festive food/rice dumplings to the needy

 ■   Mother’s Love-No Condition ; Mother’s Day-No Leftover

• Plan festive dining with proper portion size
• Donate surplus festive gift packs to the needy

• Plan Christmas gathering with proper portion size
• Choose a portion suits you when enjoying Christmas Dinner

• Don’t be a Big Waster, no matter how a big “We Wa” you are in the Halloween
• Pumpkin Recipes
• All that leftover candy from a successful night of trick-or-treating can be shared amongst your friends so it doesn’t go to waste

• Bathing with tangerine peel or lemon peel can moisturize skin from dehydration
• To diminish the appearance of eye puffs and darkness, cover the grinded potato peel to the eyes area
• - Greeners Action

• Use the rice-rinsed water to plant and clean
• Avoid leaving the tap running and the stove fire on if it is not necessary
• Coffee grounds can be used for removing odor, cleaning and prevent insect
• Replace chemical detergent by homemade eco-detergent with tea bag and various fruit peel
• Banana peel can be used as an oil cleaner and keep the shoes shine
• The grinded egg shell can be used as a fertilizer for planting or mixed with congee to increase the nutrition value
• Using recycled oil to make eco-soap
• - Greeners Action

 ■   Donate surplus mooncakes to the needy.

• Make use of the unavoidable food waste such as fish bone, shrimp head to cook soup or other dishes
• Use excessive cooked rice to make fried rice or cook with soup to make a delicious dish
• To rip the cooked meat into hair-like pieces to make shredded pork and freak shark fin soup
• Over ripe banana can be stored at freezer and to make banana shake
• Tangerine peel after dehydration under sunlight can be used to make dessert and cook with congee to enhance flavor
• Preserve tangerine in salt for months to make a salty tangerine which treats sore throat
• - Greeners Action

• Share with friends: Be environmental friendly to buy bulk and share with friends to save money
• Inform your family when you dinning out to prevent excessive dishes
• Order suitable quantity of food
• Avoid all-you-can-eat style dinning. This style of dinning not only produce large amount of food waste, it also bad for health
• To prevent post-consumed food waste, bring your own container to take home unfinished food
• To further advocate food waste reduction, participate in food waste reduction campaign such as the save food day
• - Greeners Action

• Food quantity: Prepare suitable quantity of food in every meal
• Expiry of food: Notice the expiry date of food when you shop
• Shopping list: Shop with the shopping list to avoid over-purchasing
• Food storage: Preserve easily perishable food in refrigerator
• Food donation: Donate the surplus food to food bank or community kitchen
• - Greeners Action

• Save energy and water when cooking and doing housework.
• Avoid leaving the tap running and the stove fire on if it is not necessary.
• Turn off unused home appliances.
• Irrigate plants with water used for washing rice, vegetables or fruits.
• - Environmental Campaign Committee

• Save unfinished portions of food for the next meal or day.
• Avoid using disposable cutlery. Bring your own utensils for take away.
• Use rechargeable batteries whenever possible.
• - Environmental Campaign Committee

• Bring your own reusable bags, shopping baskets, handy boxes or other types of containers to buy fresh food.
• Buy suitable amount of food and ingredients to avoid wastage.
• Use fewer disposable non-essentials, such as fruit and frozen meat plastic wrappings and gift wrapping paper.
• - Environmental Campaign Committee

• When you are eating out, always take leftovers home. You can have a free lunch next day. Save money and waste less food!
• Store leftovers and unconsumed food properly (e.g, maintain and optimum temperature in the fridge, separate raw and cooked food).
• Make good use of surplus food and/or food trimmings for a new dish (e.g, fish bone/fish head for soup or specialty dishes, leftover plain rice for fried rice).

• Think how much you can eat before you order. Choose suitable portions to avoid over-ordering.
• Ask for "Less rice" if necessary.
• If the portion is too large, share the dish with your friends. This can help avoid wasting food!

• Before cooking, ask yourself and others how much they want to eat.
• Consider light-portioned food if there are only a a few people for the meal.
• Many light-portioned recipes are available on the internet. Try those recipes to save money and waste less.

• Take stock of your food at home and make a shopping list.
• Stick to your buying plan, instead of being a victim of sales pitches.
• Buy individually packed food if you have a small family and share bulk purchases with friends and neighbours.
• Properly manage, and check the food in your fridge and cupboard (e.g, quantity and expiry dates) to avoid buying duplicates, over purchasing and food from expiring.

• To share the responsibilities and change our habits;
• To treasure the resources on the Earth;
• To donate excessive food to the needy; and
• Commercial and industrial sectors and households to adopt green cooking ideas
• - Mr Wong Kam-sing, The Secretary for the Environment