Food Wastage in the Kitchen

UK Food wastage reaches a staggering 10 Billion pounds a year.

A staggering 20 million tons of food is wasted every year in the UK! - it's equivalent to filling Wembley Stadium with food waste 8 times over.  In terms of environmental impact - producing, storing and getting the food to our homes uses a lot of energy.

If we stopped wasting all this food, it would save the equivalent of at least 18 million tones of carbon dioxide.  That's like taking 1 in 5 cars off UK roads. 

Most of this food reaches landfill sites where it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. High economic cost - at least £10 billion worth of food that could have been eaten is thrown out every year. UK householders are throwing out on average more than £400/year.

Statistics show we throw food out for two main reasons: (1) we cook or prepare too much, costing us around £4 billion per year;  (2) we let food go off, either completely untouched, or opened/ started but not finished, costing £6 billion per year. But is that really true? do we really let food go off all by itself or does our fridge and freezer play a large part a part in this?

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