Cracking down on food waste
Every day all around the globe, edible food is wasted. In fact, the world wastes about a third of all food that we produce for human consumption. To be more precise, the annual value of food wasted globally is worth a staggering $1 trillion USD, weighing in at 1.3 billion tonnes (news.nationalgeographic.com).
And the UK contributes greatly to this waste. On average, UK households throw away 1.96kg of food per day — this adds up to eight meals a week; a wasted ?496 per year! Annually, we waste 6.6 million tonnes of food, with 4.5 million tonnes of that being completely edible — food that could have been eaten (. uk). The remaining 2.1 million tonnes are inedible things we can’t eat, like bones, eggshells)
