‘Every household needs to work out a system for their fridge’: how to throw out less food

Lucy Leonardi lists all the vegetables in her fridge on its door for quick reference to help ensure they are used. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Lucy Leonardi has been practising sustainable strategies for reducing food waste at home for about six years now.

After participating in the ABC’s War on Waste program, where residents of one street in Sydney learned how to reduce their food waste, the co-author of educational kid’s book Food Wise started to think even more about her family’s consumption.