Brits waste nearly £30 a month by throwing away over a kilogram of uneaten food – with bread, bananas, and milk the most commonly-binned items in the nation's kitchens. A whopping 81 per cent, of 2,000 adults polled, admit to throwing away uneaten items at least once a week – with potatoes, eggs, and bags of salad leaves also among the top discarded items.
Over a third (37 per cent) forget about things until they go off, while one in five (21 per cent) struggle to use up all the contents from the likes of multi-packs. And while two-thirds (67 per cent) struggle to turn leftovers into a tasty meal, 39 per cent bin things simply because they’re bored of eating them in batch.
Despite this, almost all respondents (98 per cent) said they care about food waste, and 27 per cent would love to be a zero-food waste household – but don't know how.
