How much food do you throw away?
Posted by kathryn in Nutrition
According to the University of Western Sydney’s Urban Research Centre Sydney-siders throw out over $600 million worth of fresh food each year, as well as $182 million of leftovers. Which totals almost $1 billion of food each year.
There are lots of reasons for this. For example:
‘Sydney is such a rich consumer society that it happily throws away in value as much as Sydney farmers receive in income,’’ said Phillip O’Neill, director of the centre, which crunched figures from the Australia Institute, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and NSW Government. Householders start out with good intentions, but then become too busy to prepare the fresh food they buy, he said. ’’So the bag of lettuce leaves, the broccoli that goes mouldy; even the boned chicken thigh cutlets get thrown out.’‘
You can read more about it on the Sydney Morning Herald website.