Love Food Hate Waste

A third of the food we buy in the UK ends up being thrown away.  Of course, some is peelings, cores and bones, but most of it is, or once was, perfectly good food.

Little by little, all this waste really adds up. Over a years, the average family throws away £610 of food shopping - equivalent to an annual utility bill.  That's a lot of food.

Wasted food is a waste of money and has a big impact on climate change.  Most of it ends up in landfill sites, where it rots and releases greenhouse damaging methane.  It's also a waste of the energy, water and packaging used in its production, transportation and storage.

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.