The Unpalatable Food Facts

We are throwing money away. In Britain the average family bins upwards of £400 worth of food each year. Annually we dispose of the equivalent of £8 Billion of food, a third of all we consume, and this only applies to domestic use. We then have to pay our councils to get rid of it, adding to our tax bills.

Food waste that goes into landfill decomposes anaerobically and creates tonnes of methane