Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Ireland wastes one million tonnes of food

Up to 30 per cent of food produced worldwide is wasted.

One billion people have not enough food to eat.

Ireland produces one million tonnes of food waste each year.

On a per capita basis, the average Irish person generates 280kg of food waste each year, the fifth highest in Europe.

The average Irish household spends between €700 and €1,000 annually on waste food.

1 comment:

Michael said...

Michael,
I looked for the source material for this. The best I can find is this:

http://www.consensus.ie/documents/factsheet_5_foodwaste.pdf

The picture is not all bleak. More than 80% of householders in the survey are actively trying to reduce food waste.

The per capita figure is misleading: about 50% of food wastage seems to come from the industry, not consumers.

That said, I do not know (a) how nationally representative the sample was as it seems to be confined and (b) what questions were actually asked.

Michael

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