British households throw about a fifth of their food – untouched and uneaten – straight in the bin, according to a BBC radio show.
Sandra Sykes, producer of the BBC Radio 4 program, ‘Costing the Earth’, says: “Our shopping trolleys are bigger than our stomachs.”
She says people in the UK no longer prepare meals from leftover scraps and over cautiously throw out food – which might be perfectly edible – as soon as it passes its use by date.
It all works out to an average of $1025, spent every year on wasted food by each person.
The program says this would be enough to pay the entire British council tax bill of almost $49 billion.