Love Food Hate Waste
According to the latest figures from ‘Love Food Hate Waste’, a campaign formed by WRAP to tackle food being wasted in UK homes, an astounding 4.4million whole apples are being thrown away untouched every day in the UK, contributing to the £3 billion worth of fruit and vegetables binned each year.
The majority of the waste is made up of fruit, vegetables and other perfectly edible foods with the remaining proportion being things like peelings, bones and cores. Once the food waste reaches its destination, it emits methane, a powerful gas contributing to climate change and green house effects so we need to divert as much as possible away from landfill.
The study shows that the main reason Britain throws so much out is simply because we do not eat it before it goes off and we could be making the problem worse by not storing food in the correct conditions. A simple solution for this problem would be to store fruit and vegetables in the fridge, keeping them at a cool temperature and prolonging their life span.