It’s easy to point the finger of food-waste at restaurants and big businesses, but the reality is that 50% of the total discarded food in the UK can be found in the garbage cans of peoples’ homes. This equates to 7 million tonnes per year of mostly still-edible food according to Love Food Hate Waste. According to the following infographic provided by McQueen Cairns Technology, this represents an average cost of £470 or $700 for a family with kids. In case you’re feeling good about yourself today, here’s a short infographic about food waste to remind you that you’re a terrible human being contributing to a mass food apocalypse of flaming social and environmental values…bitch.
