Salad days soon over: consumers throw away 40% of bagged leaves

Exclusive: Britons fail to eat 178m bags of salad every year, say Tesco and government waste body Wrap, in study highlighting food waste

Britons throw away 40% of the bagged salad they buy every year, according to the latest data, with 37,000 tonnes - the equivalent of 178m bags - going uneaten every year.

The figures from the government's waste advisory body Wrap are being published on Wednesday by the supermarket giant Tesco to highlight that prepared salads are still among the UK's most wasted household foods. Past studies have shown that the average UK family throws away 700 of food each year.