In the UK, around 6.4 million tonnes of edible food is wasted each year – that is the equivalent of 15 billion meals, or enough to feed the entire UK population 3 meals a day for 11 weeks. But while food waste is a year-round issue, there’s something so frustrating about the way it spikes around Christmas.
First of all, there is the oversupply issue. Supermarkets want to give an impression of abundance – so they overstock, leading to mountains of unsold food come Boxing Day. What happens to all this food? A lot of it is simply thrown out. Or (if you are one of our fantastic supermarket partners) sent to food redistribution charities like The Felix Project.
