
Reducing food waste
Reduce the amount of food you waste with advice, tips and planning.
Did you know?
- 37% of the average household in Worcestershire is food waste
- this costs the authority around £11m in disposal charges in 2015/16
- some of the waste is made up of things like peelings, cores and bones and is unavoidable
- the majority of what we waste is, or once was, perfectly good food
We throw away around 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year, costing us £12.5bn.
This is equivalent to the average household throwing away six meals a week and equates to nearly £700 a year for the average family with children or £470 a year for the average household. The carbon associated with this avoidable food waste is equivalent to taking one in four cars off UK roads for a year (3).
Surprisingly, research indicates that people don’t think they waste food and that the food they waste doesn’t cost them much. In fact, each of us throws away on average 110kg of food a year.
For hints and tips to help you reduce food waste, save money and for lots of recipes and ideas for using up leftovers, visit the Love Food Hate Waste website.