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United Kingdom: Households are throwing away six meals a week as the nation bins 'staggering' amount of food and drink
2013-11-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The average household is throwing away six meals or 3kg of food each and every week despite rising bills - costing families 60 a month. Experts last night called for a combined effort from Ministers and high street stores to do even more to bring down the "staggering" amount of waste in the nation's kitchens. Wrap, the environmental campaign group, said 4.2 million tonnes of "avoidable" food waste - food which could have been eaten - is binned each year, including 320,000 tonnes of potatoes,...
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