How much do you chuck away?

remorseless

Each year 1.3bn tonnes of food, about a third of all that is produced, is wasted, including about 45% of all fruit and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, 20% of dairy products and 20% of meat.

Average Briton throws out 24st of good food each year: UK is worst in European league for squandering

BTW - 24 st is like 152kg!!!!!

What would be the impact on the economy/retails if people stop the waste?

Wheezy_2

We chuck away barely anything, I'd say a couple of kilos a year...maximum.
I abhor wasting food, especially meat. An animal died for that.
Mrs. Wheezy is very good at menu planning and buying accordingly, so that helps also.

Mummyisbeauty

Not much food but seem to end up with endless supplies of packaging

remorseless

Mummyisbeauty wrote: »

Not much food but seem to end up with endless supplies of packaging

I am the same, I wish there was less packaging. I find the Uk really full on in plastic trays and plastic wrappers anything!



And I wish there was a facility at the supermarket where I could bring all that stuff back for better disposal.

Carl31

hardly anything, ill only chuck something if its obviously severely off or rotten, if its slightly tainted ill still eat it, and i ignore dates on products, the nose knows

System

Carl31 wrote: »

ill only chuck something if its obviously severely off or rotten, if its slightly tainted ill still eat it, and i ignore dates on products, the nose knows

Freudian slip, or missing apostrophe?

marleyboy

As soon as the use by date has been reached we bin it. Am very fussy when it comes to food but there is generally not much thrown (aside from leftovers) as we tend to use them up before the dateline.

Mummyisbeauty

marleyboy wrote: »

As soon as the use by date has been reached we bin it. Am very fussy when it comes to food but there is generally not much thrown (aside from leftovers) as we tend to use them up before the dateline.

I would for use by date but not best before date.

Mummyisbeauty

remorseless wrote: »

I am the same, I wish there was less packaging. I find the Uk really full on in plastic trays and plastic wrappers anything!



And I wish there was a facility at the supermarket where I could bring all that stuff back for better disposal.

Our council will recycle plastic packaging so that is where it goes. I just wish our recycling was weekly.

marleyboy

I would for use by date but not best before date.

I tend not to buy anything that is nearing its sell by date. With things like bread or cheese, its as soon as the corners go stale.

SailorSam

I'd normally say very very little, everything possible goes in the freezer. Unfortunately a couple of weeks back my big freezer went off and i was a couple of weeks waiting for them to return with the part.