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The UK government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain's
waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb spiralling
food prices.
Supermarkets will be urged to drop 'three for two'
deals on food that encourage shoppers into bulk-buying more
than they need, often leading to the surpluses being thrown
away.
The scandal of the vast mountains of food that are thrown
away in Britain while other parts of the world starve is revealed
in a Cabinet Office report. It calls for a reduction in food
waste - up to 40 per cent of groceries can be lost before
they are consumed due to poor processing, storage and transport.
The report says UK households could save an average of £420
per year by not throwing away 4.1 million tonnes of food that
could have been eaten.
Gordon Brown said he would make action to tackle the soaring
cost of food a priority at the G8 summit in Japan. "If
we are to get food prices down, we must do more to deal with
unnecessary demand - such as by all of us doing more to cut
our food waste which is costing the average household in Britain
around £8 per week" - he told journalists on board
the plane to the summit.
The UK government is to launch a major offensive to encourage
supermarkets, restaurants, schools and all public sector bodies
- as well as householders - to try to cut down dramatically
on the amount of food they throw away.
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