War on Food Waste

Jul 08, 2008 20:39

Excerpt from the news:

Britain declares war on food waste

The Government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain's waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb spiraling food prices.

Supermarkets will be urged to drop "three for two" deals on food that encourage shoppers into bulk-buying more than they need, often leading to the surpluses being thrown away. The scandal of the vast mountains of food that are thrown away in Britain while other parts of the world starve is revealed in a Cabinet Office report today. It calls for a reduction in food waste: up to 40 per cent of groceries can be lost before they are consumed due to poor processing, storage and transport.

The report says UK households could save an average of £420 per year by not throwing away 4.1 million tonnes of food that could have been eaten.

war, gordon brown, in the news

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