What your household food waste looks like
(and tips to reduce it)..
UK households discard 6 million tonnes of food each year.
That’s enough to fill 100,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools! Almost 275 pools every single day!
On a personal level, UK household food waste equates to almost 88 kg of edible food wasted per person per year!
Roughly the same as throwing away a full Sunday roast with all the trimmings every week for two months straight.
Around 73% (4.4 million tonnes) of food waste is edible. That’s the equivalent of 10 billion meals..
Enough to feed the entire population of London for more than a year’s worth of dinners.
Most households throw away around £700 of food per year – literally in the bin. That’s the same as most annual electricity bills or buying a brand new iPhone..
The climate cost of food waste is even greater. Around 16 million tonnes of CO₂e is generated from wasted food.
Cutting this would be like removing 7 million cars from UK roads for a year.