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Fast fact #36

#36: UK households throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food (£680 per family) per year - the same as one in three bags of shopping going in the bin.

Food and diet

Bibliography

Source: Love Food Hate Waste.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/new-estimates-household-food-and-drink-waste-uk
Originally published in The Big Picture Little Book of Fast Facts
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Teaching-and-education/Big-Picture/All-issues/Special-Fast-Facts-book/index.htm

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