Food material hierarchy the amount of food waste generated by households and the hospitality and food service sector as a percentage of the amounts of food purchased are similar at between 16 and 18 respectively figure 4. Food surplus and waste in the uk key facts 3 figure 3. Likewise to provide a framework for food rescue that can be replicated.
We are on a mission to eliminate hunger and food waste through the redistribution of quality surplus food. Food that s thrown away and ends up in landfill isn t harmless it breaks down and releases methane a greenhouse gas that s 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide co2 for the environment. Food waste produces a potent greenhouse gas.
Here are three key food waste facts as well as more key uk food waste statistics. But we keep throwing perfectly good food away. If it were a country food waste would be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gases pdf in the world.
This wasted food has taken loads of fresh water land and labour to produce. We waste about a third of all food produced for human consumption. Wasting food is bad for the environment including the climate.
All the world s nearly one billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the us uk and europe. Uk households waste around 20 of all the food they buy but the good news is that this suggests a 17 reduction since 2007. That s almost twice the amount of sweden and spain and third higher than germany the second largest producers of food waste in europe.
The uk produces the highest amount of food waste in europe the uk produces an estimated 14 million tonnes of food waste each year according to the european commission. We continue a full national operation to get food to vulnerable people during the covid 19 crisis. Fareshare deals with these issues by redistributing good surplus food to vulnerable people.
Facts and figures about food waste and hunger in the uk.
Food waste facts uk. In the home food waste is worth 730 per year to the average uk family 2 275 in the usa which collectively adds up to 15 billion per year. Ref ref fact 10. 2 3 billion people are joining the planet by 2050 this will require a 60 70 increase in global food production. Despite government food waste reduction targets and schemes such as love food hate waste which have aimed to encourage people to rethink the way they cook and shop the uk currently wastes over 15m tonnes of food each year.
Of the 7 million tonnes of food waste discarded from homes nearly half is edible. The amount of food we waste as a nation is particularly shocking when we consider. Total food waste in the uk has fallen by the equivalent of 7 per person over the past three years but individual households should still be doing more to reduce the 4 5m tonnes of food waste.
Total food waste in the uk has fallen by the equivalent of 7 per person over the past three years but individual households should still be doing more to reduce the 4 5m tonnes of food waste. The amount of food we waste as a nation is particularly shocking when we consider. Of the 7 million tonnes of food waste discarded from homes nearly half is edible.
Despite government food waste reduction targets and schemes such as love food hate waste which have aimed to encourage people to rethink the way they cook and shop the uk currently wastes over 15m tonnes of food each year. 2 3 billion people are joining the planet by 2050 this will require a 60 70 increase in global food production. Ref ref fact 10.
In the home food waste is worth 730 per year to the average uk family 2 275 in the usa which collectively adds up to 15 billion per year.
