GoodTaste
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[FONT="]I OFTEN feel guilty in the kitchen. The problem isn’t my cooking; I live in France and pride myself on my culinary skills. The cause of my guilt is the amount of food I keep throwing away. A pile of leftover pasta, the uneaten salmon from my daughter’s plate, some expired tofu discovered at the back of the fridge – in it all goes. It sits there in a heap on top of the [/FONT]plastic packaging[FONT="]in which most of the food came wrapped.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It might be a modest heap in my kitchen bin, but, worldwide, food waste is a problem of supersized proportions.[/FONT]
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Source: New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/articl...food-goes-to-waste-heres-how-to-stop-the-rot/
I don't quite understand the phrase "It sits there in a heap on top of the plastic packaging." "It" appears to be a garbage bin and now it sits there in a heap of something, It is in a heap and so the bin is outside the heap of waste.
The problem is that author says in following: "It might be a modest heap in my kitchen bin" - now the waste is in the bin.
So what does the phrase mean? Or exactly, what does "it sits there in a heap" mean? Is the heap of waste inside or outside the bin?[/FONT]
[FONT="]It might be a modest heap in my kitchen bin, but, worldwide, food waste is a problem of supersized proportions.[/FONT]
[FONT="]
Source: New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/articl...food-goes-to-waste-heres-how-to-stop-the-rot/
I don't quite understand the phrase "It sits there in a heap on top of the plastic packaging." "It" appears to be a garbage bin and now it sits there in a heap of something, It is in a heap and so the bin is outside the heap of waste.
The problem is that author says in following: "It might be a modest heap in my kitchen bin" - now the waste is in the bin.
So what does the phrase mean? Or exactly, what does "it sits there in a heap" mean? Is the heap of waste inside or outside the bin?[/FONT]