Food waste: Australian households throw out more than $2,000 of shopping a year

Each year about 7.6m tonnes of food is wasted in Australia between paddock and plate. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

One in three households is wasting the equivalent of a shopping bag full of food each week, a new study has found, despite food waste costing Australians more than $2,000 each year.

Nearly half of Australian households (42%) said they are throwing away as much food or more than they did this time last year, the study from climate action group Wrap and Mayonnaise brand Hellmans has shown.