There has been a very significant reduction in the amount of food waste2 generated by households in the UK between 2006/7 and 2010/11, of around 1.1 million tonnes (from 8.3 million tonnes to 7.2 million tonnes)3. Avoidable food waste has reduced by 950,000 tonnes, from 5.3 to 4.4 million tonnes, which will have delivered huge benefits to the environment, in terms of reductions in CO2e emissions, water usage and the amount of material sent to landfill. Around £2.5 billion less food is now thrown away each year compared to 2006/7. Detailed compositional analysis has not yet been undertaken to understand which types of food may have decreased the most, or how food waste generation by different types of household might have changed over this period.
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