Food Waste

[MaryN]

With all the furore about food shortages, I thought I would dig a bit deeper into the subject, just out of interest. MB's comments about the potential shortfall in food imports into this country intrigued me.

So, did you know that in the region of 2 to 3 million tonnes of food is wasted by the food industry in the UK each year? This is just the food industry, mind. The total wastage including that from households is somewhere in the region of 10 million tonnes! These are obviously figures that would vary from season to season and area to area, but it does beg the question how could this country end up in a starvation situation.

A lot of the food wasted by households has been overbought and no efforts have been made to reuse or recycle it. I now have every sympathy with that MP who suggested that people learn to cook!