What’s in your fridge and what do you throw away ?

There was a report in the paper this week which said that every year Britain throws away £20bn of unused food. That’s equal to five times our spending on internation aid and enough to lift 150 million people out of starvation.

We have an obligation to cut our 22.5 million tons of domestic rubbish and 3.4 million tons of that is waste food.

At least 3 million tons is thrown away by the retail sector, including supermarkets. So much food is discarded that people now choose to purchase as little as possible to contribute to the waste less.

Freegans are people who are concerned so deeply with the social and ecological impact of economic over-consumption that they choose to buy and work as little as possible and, instead, to live directly off the massive waste created by our modern society. Freegans avoid contributing labor or wealth to an economy based on materialism, explotation, greed and waste by refusing to participate in it. Instead of producing their own waste, Freegans sustain themselves off the already existing waste thereby curtailing garbage and pollution and lessening the over-all volume in the waste stream.

Taken from http://freegan.info/

Clearly we need to catch up in this country is we are to meet the EU target, already achieved in Scandinavian countries, of recycling 45% of waste by 2020.