According to Business Waste, the UK produces around 9.5 million tonnes of food waste in a single year. Most staggering of all, the waste management company reveals that one-third of all food ends up thrown away.
A huge proportion of this is down to the lack of awareness of expiration dates. Oddbox reports that as many as “one-third of Brits rely only on best-before labels when deciding whether their food has gone bad” – placing a huge amount of importance on this information without understanding what these labels actually mean.
