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.
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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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