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Research has found that over the Christmas period more than 250,000 turkeys are wasted, along with 7.5 million mince pies, and 170 tonnes of Brussel sprouts.

Furthermore, on average UK tea drinkers get through 165 million cups of tea a day, and you can imagine a peak period is over Christmas. A kettle takes a minimum of two minutes 20 seconds to boil a litre of water, so you could be wasting valuable festive games time with your family, while you are waiting for the kettle to boil, again.

What’s more, according to the , 40 per cent of households boil the kettle at least four times a day, with 75 per cent admitting to boiling more water than they need; accounting for a significant amount of water and energy wasted every year.

This Christmas, we are encouraging consumers and our trade partners to make positive lifestyle changes that they can carry through to 2020.

We are committed to producing lifestyle enhancing solutions, which encourage the efficient use of water, are safe within the home and reduce the impact that food and plastic waste has on landfill sites and the wider environment.

A sustainable approach to food waste at Christmas

The first approach to food waste should always be to reuse it where possible.

To minimise waste, you can re-use leftovers for creating dishes such as bubble and squeak, or turkey pie, however despite our best efforts a proportion of food waste, such as vegetable peelings, is inevitable.

We’ve even developed an infographic that shares a few Christmas leftover recipes to get you started.

Meal preparation almost always results in some form of unavoidable food waste. From Chicken bones through to vegetable peelings, it can’t all be repurposed into delicious Boxing Day snack.

An InSinkErator food waste disposer is the ideal solution for disposing of inedible food waste when home composting is not possible. A food waste disposer fits discreetly under your sink and grinds food waste into very fine particles that are flushed through your plumbing to wastewater treatment, where biogas can be recovered.

How an instant hot water tap can save you time and help the environment

As we mentioned at the top of this page, you can easily find yourself wasting a lot of valuable family time waiting for the kettle boil and using a kettle can also contribute to a significant amount of water and energy wastage.

Let’s be realistic, over the Christmas period you’re not going to be able to get your passionate tea drinking guests to sacrifice their evening cuppa. That’s one debate we would never entertain getting involved in.

That being said, we bet you’ll use the kettle over the holiday period (and throughout the year for that matter) for a lot more than just making a round of hot drinks. You’ll probably use it to add more liquid to a sauce, to help remove hard grease from pots and pans… and that’s just a couple off the top of our head.

An InSinkErator instant hot water tap is ideal for speeding up a variety of processes in the kitchen over the holiday period. With instant hot water on demand, you’ll only ever use the amount of water you need and it’s perfect for things like making stock and warming a scoop to help you dig into that post-dinner ice cream that you waited oh so patiently for.

Here are 10 of our favourite uses of an instant hot water tap.

We’ve been providing instant hot water taps since 1973 and in that time we’ve developed reliable systems that are available in a range of styles and finishes to suit everyone’s needs.

Our HC1100 and HC3300 taps are dedicated instant hot and filtered cold water taps that sit alongside your main kitchen mixer tap.

There are also taps that are designed to replace your main kitchen mixer, like our 4N1 Touch. Our 4N1 Touch taps instantly dispense filtered steaming hot water, alongside regular hot and cold water. What’s more, at the touch of a button the 4N1 Touch tap provides a stream of filtered cold water for 30 seconds. If the user wishes to stop the stream before 30 seconds is up, a second touch of the dedicated button will stop the flow of water immediately.

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Have a Sustainable Christmas with These Food Waste Facts and Tips