UK Residents waste $20 Billion worth of food every year, The Guardian reports. A new British Government study on waste has found that Britons are simply throwing away $20 Billion worth of food that could have been eaten. If you’ve sampled certain British cuisine, this might not come as much of a surprise, but the negative effect this enormous amount of waste has on the environment is no joke.
Approximately $12 Billion of the total comes from food that is bought but never touched. Britons simply toss out 13 million unopened yogurt containers, 5,500 untouched chickens and 440,000 un-nuked TV Dinners each year. The rest of the $20 Billion comes from excess food which is prepared to eat but never consumed because the amount was misjudged and the extra is never eaten as leftovers.
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These Top 10 garbloggers are taking the world of trash to task by going to great lengths – and even extremes – to make sure their consumer waste stays out of the landfill. A garblogger, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is a green lifestyle blogger who writes about one particular slovenly subject – garbage. Our consumption compulsions are trashing the planet, they say, and their aim is to get folks thinking about what it really means when we throw something “away.”
