 The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.
Why does cutting food waste matter?
- 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in th UK every year.
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Wasting food costs the average family with children £680 a year.
- Each month, the average family throws away £50 of good food that was bought but not eaten.
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If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.
- Food that is thrown away will most likely end up in a landfill site, where, rather than harmlessly decomposing as many people think, it rots and actually releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
For more information on Love Food Hate Waste visit the website, it's packed with helpful advice including a portion planner and lots of brilliant recipes so that food waste can be a thing of the past.
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Page Last Updated: 20 Jan 2012
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