European Week for Waste Reduction ***Harvest Seminar***

In the lead up to the European Week for Waste Reduction, An Taisce's Green Home programme organised a "Harvest Project" with the aim of reducing the amount of perfectly good fruit that is wasted each autumn because people don't notice them, people may not be physically able to harvest them or there is just too much fruit at one time.Allied to this is the considerable mileage much of the food we eat has to travel. Over the past few months local groups, schools and enthusiastic individuals have been out harvesting the abundance of fruit in their area while also mapping those fruit trees on our Harvest Map. Many of these community harvest have been documented on our Facebook page.

On the 23rd of November the Green Home team held a "Harvest Seminar" to celebrate the success of the project and to discuss the value of such initiatives in raising awareness about waste reduction and also to discuss how the project may be expanded in the future. Speakers at the event included: Professor Emeritus Michael Hennerty; Tine Ningal, PhD Candidate, School of Geography and Planning, UCD; Dr. Dorothy Stewart, Manager of Green Home Programme and Niamh McDonald, Green Home Programme Officer. Their presentations can be accessed underneath each of the pictures below. The subject matter of the presentations was extremely thought provoking and contributed to interesting discussions on waste reduction and how the Harvest Project may be advanced in the future. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our Green Home Harvest Seminar It was great to see such interest and enthusiasm in the project and we look forward to continuing the project into the future.