Everyone in Cumbria is being encouraged to get involved with food waste reduction in their homes. As part of Food Waste Action Week, Cumbria County Council is working alongside the national Love Food, Hate Waste campaign to offer top tips on reducing the amount of food waste, which could also help to slow the effects of climate change. It's no secret that waste feeds climate change, and if everybody stopped throwing away the 710,000 tonnes of potatoes wasted every year, it could prevent 330,000 tonnes of CO2e from being released into the atmosphere. When food is thrown away, it is also a waste of the resources that go into making it, including water, land and greenhouse gases.