Talking Rubbish!

[Mie1]

Talking rubbish: Facts and figures

• 5.4 m The estimated number of tonnes of edible food British households throw away each year.
• 30m The number of malnourished people whose hunger could be alleviated by the bread British households bin each year.
• 84 The percentage of British households under the impression that they don't waste significant amounts of food.
• 43m The number of people at risk from food poverty in the EU.
• 923m The number of undernourished people in the world, according to a 2007 UN survey.
• 40% The estimated proportion of salad that British households throw away.
• 14bn The number of dollars of agricultural produce India wastes each year owing to its lack of infrastructure.
• 1.6m The estimated number of tonnes of food waste produced by British retailers each year.
• 59,625 Estimated amount in tonnes of food waste sent by Sainsbury's to landfill sites in 2007-8.
• 40% The estimated proportion of UK fruit and veg that supermarkets reject on cosmetic grounds.

[Darko1]

And then they go and ship the %^&* to us by the containers. Let them be crushed by their own rubbish!! And then they come and want to ell us about the environment and how to do this and that. What will the statistics for Africa be, I think? Maybe it cannot be compared. UK is drowning in food and rubbish. Gluttony.