Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Food in UK sent to landfill could feed 113m people
Mountains of food piled up by the lorryload and left to rot.
The waste in the UK, Europe and the US would be enough to feed the world's starving seven times over.
And food chucked away in households in this country alone could feed 113million people.
That means on average each one of us discards enough good food in our homes to save two people from hunger.
Now a new book called Waste by small-scale farmer and food industry analyst Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill.
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