Food waste: £1.2bn of UK food never reaches supermarket shelves

Michael Holder
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WRAP study finds 3.6 million tonnes of food surplus and waste occurs at farms and in food supply chains

Around 3.6 million tonnes of food worth a whopping £1.2bn goes to waste in the UK every year even before it reaches supermarket shelves, according to waste charity WRAP. New research released by WRAP...

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