Do You Dump $616 of Food Each Year?
A new survey shows that the average Australian household dumps $616 worth of food in the bin each year.
That’s a whopping $5.2 billion in waste food Australia wide and it creates as much carbon emissions as that of the iron and steel industries. A real contributor to climate change.
The What a Waste survey, which took in the responses of 1,603 Australians during October, found that despite being concerned about wasted food – and guilty – households threw out an average $616 worth of food annually.
Fruit and vegetables were the most thrown out items, followed by restaurant and takeaway leftovers and then meat and fish. Richer households tossed more and also smaller households
The millions of tonnes of food waste left rotting in landfill gives off methane a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
The survey authors believe the onus is on government to introduce policies to get people thinking smart about food shopping and waste. They survey showed that people are more likely to reduce food waste for financial reasons than because of environmental or humanitarian concerns.
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