The U.K. is cutting down on food waste - Grist | Grist

Looks like this season of The Great British Waste Off is off to a great start.

It’s Thursday, September 27, and the U.K. is cutting down on food waste. The United Kingdom wastes an astonishing 10 million tons of food every year. Blimey, that’s a lot of scraps in the rubbish heap! All that food waste produces 22 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. And it costs the U.K. $13 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) annually. In short, reducing the amount of food the Brits throw out is a win-win, environmentally and economically. That’s why the British government announced Tuesday a new effort to crack down on food waste. Seventy major companies signed on to the voluntary

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