A new book – Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart – refines earlier research to calculate the amount we throw away in Britain, including:
It all adds up to one quarter of our total purchases, around 5.4 million tonnes – yes, 5,400,000,000kg.
Just as with diet, obesity, exercise and health, we should start practising what we are preached.
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