Britons throw away a fortune in good food

The amount of good food Britons throw away unnecessarily is at record levels, according to a study yesterday, costing the economy 10 billion pounds a year.

More than half of the 6.7 million tons of food that households throw away annually is still edible, the study from the Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP) revealed.

About one billion pounds worth of wasted food is still "in date", the "The Food We Waste" report concluded, while about 6 billion pounds of food was bought but left untouched.