Wasted Food

A recent exercise by the LGA has come up with a remarkable figure of £13.7bn as the cost of buying and throwing away good food and drink last year. That cost apparently covers the cost of the food, the cost of council workers taking it to landfill (including landfill tax) etc. so there is an element of apples and pears (no pun intended) here. Whatever, it is a shocking number. LGA further suggests that each household bought £520-worth of food last year that wasn't eaten. That's a statistic that I can believe. There's a higher sum which is very difficult to calculate that include the food unnecessarily eaten - but maybe that's an argument too far!