In order to spread awareness of recycling food waste, pupils from North Kidlington Primary School donned banana costumes and roamed Blenheim Palace on Tuesday and learned how UK households produce 7.3 million tonnes of food waste every year, including 240,000 tonnes of banana skins.
The campaign is called Recycle Now and states that it takes 289,400 banana peels - the equivalent to one from every household in Oxfordshire - to produce enough energy to power three schools for one day.
Linda Crichton, from Recycle Now, said: “Although many people in Oxfordshire are recycling their food waste, there’s still more we can do.
“When we ask people why they don’t recycle their food waste, they tell us it’s because they don’t think they produce enough to bother.
“In fact - we all create a certain amount of food waste which cannot be eaten, no matter how conscientious we are in trying not to waste food."
Across the county, nearly 15,000 tonnes of food waste was sent to anaerobic digestion in 2015/16.
source: oxfordmail.co.uk
