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Article: The great food waste scandal; 38,000 TONNES DUMPED A YEAR: APPEAL FOR LOCAL ACTION.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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Byline: ANDREW FORGRAVE
30% OF OUR SPUDS BINNED MOST farmers, livestock or arable, are shocked at the idea of cultivating or rearing a harvest, only to see much of it go to waste.
Yet a third of all Britain's food is destined not for plates but for landfill, helping to fuel some of the major globals concerns of the age: food security, climate change and deforestation.
Food waste has become so endemic in modern consumer society that we now take it for granted. Yet tackling the issue is relatively simple, and far more cost effective than any number of agri-environment schemes, aid packages and climate change mitigation projects.
Now ...