Wasting food costs £420 a year for every family in Hull. Nationally, we waste 6.7 million tonnes of food every year - about a third of the food we buy. Over one quarter (nearly 1.2 million tonnes) of the food thrown away each year is thrown away still in its packaging.
Every year we waste -
- 359,000 tonnes potatoes
- 328,000 tonnes sliced of bread
- 90,000 tonnes apples
Foods thrown away whole and unused include -
- grapes (4.8 billion a year)
- tomatoes (1 billion a year)
- bread rolls (775 million a year)
- yoghurts and yoghurt drinks (484 million a year)
Some food waste, such as egg shells, banana skins and tea bags, is inevitable. Home composting is a great way to stop this sort of waste ending up in landfill, and is good for our gardens too. Use your kitchen caddy for anything you can't eat or compost.
Most of the food we throw away could have been eaten if it had been managed better.
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