Food wastage

Four point four million apples, 1.6 million bananas, 600,000 eggs, 500,000 chickens, 440,000 ready meals, 1.3 million yogurt pots are thrown away each day by people in the UK.

Britain throws away £10 billion worth of food every year. The avarage UK family throws away £420 worth of food every year and a family with children throws away £610 food worth annually.

There are no comparable figure for Ireland but it may well be worse.

And while the people in the developed world throw away such vast quantities of food, 800 million people in the developing world will go to bed tonight without enough food in the bellies.

Have you ever noticed in hotels and restaurants the amount of food people leave on plates?

Our food wastage is an appalling scandal. And we in Ireland seem to be leaders in the scandal.