U.K.’s War on Waste
Remember when your mother told you to eat everything on your plate because “children were starving in Africa?” Well, the British government turned it up a notch by telling grocery stores to quit selling so much food:
Supermarkets will be urged to drop “three for two” deals on food that encourage shoppers into bulk-buying more than they need, often leading to the surpluses being thrown away. The scandal of the vast mountains of food that are thrown away in Britain while other parts of the world starve is revealed in a Cabinet Office report today. It calls for a reduction in food waste: up to 40 per cent of groceries can be lost before they are consumed due to poor processing, storage and transport.
The report says UK households could save an average of £420 per year by not throwing away 4.1 million tonnes of food that could have been eaten.
You got to feel for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He must be in real political trouble if he’s resorting to such small-ball politics.
“Britain Declares War on Food Waste“
