UK: The average family throws out

The average family throws


…The Government has given WRAP, which claims its study is the most comprehensive of its kind, the task of reducing food and packaging waste.

WRAP said huge amounts of energy are wasted in producing and transporting food that is never eaten.

Most of the dumped food reaches sites where it emits the greenhouse-gas methane.

“The carbon impact of food waste is enormous,” WRAP said. “Tackling it would provide a carbon benefit equivalent to taking one in five cars off UK roads.”

Daily Mail