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Wasteful Britons Chuck Away Fifth of Food - Report
36 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British households throw about a fifth of their food, untouched and uneaten, straight into the rubbish bin, according to a BBC radio show.
"Our shopping trolleys are bigger than our stomachs," said Sandra Sykes, producer of the BBC Radio 4 program "Costing the Earth," which was to broadcast its findings on Thursday night.
Britons no longer prepare meals from left-over scraps and over-cautiously chuck food, which may be perfectly edible, as soon as it passes its sell-by date, she told Reuters..
"People are happily sending food to the bins that other people would be content to eat. That's the moral issue."
And the money spent on wasted food -- around 420 pounds ($793) per person a year -- would be enough to pay the entire country's 20 billion pound council tax bill, the program says.
It proposes food waste be transformed into a fuel to produce heat and electricity -- a "modern-day alchemy."
36 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British households throw about a fifth of their food, untouched and uneaten, straight into the rubbish bin, according to a BBC radio show.
"Our shopping trolleys are bigger than our stomachs," said Sandra Sykes, producer of the BBC Radio 4 program "Costing the Earth," which was to broadcast its findings on Thursday night.
Britons no longer prepare meals from left-over scraps and over-cautiously chuck food, which may be perfectly edible, as soon as it passes its sell-by date, she told Reuters..
"People are happily sending food to the bins that other people would be content to eat. That's the moral issue."
And the money spent on wasted food -- around 420 pounds ($793) per person a year -- would be enough to pay the entire country's 20 billion pound council tax bill, the program says.
It proposes food waste be transformed into a fuel to produce heat and electricity -- a "modern-day alchemy."
