UK households are throwing away £12 billion worth of food and drink every year - for the average family, that's up to £50 a month.
According to WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme) that's the equivalent of 8.3 million tonnes of food and less than one-fifth of that is really unavoidable - things like bones and banana skins.
Wasted food doesn't just affect our purses, it has a big impact on climate change too. Most of it ends up in landfill sites where it rots and releases methane, a damaging greenhouse gas. The food and drink we throw away is also a huge waste of energy, water and packaging used in its production, transportation and storage.
The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the benefits of reducing food waste and has lots of quick and easy ways to help us all make the most of our food, such as:
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