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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

Food waste costs the UK economy about £22bn annually
Food waste costs the UK economy about £22bn annually. Photograph: EnVogue_Photo/Alamy

Food companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have said.

About a third of the food produced globally every year is binned, much of it before it reaches the consumer at a cost of almost £22bn annually to the UK economy.

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