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In recent months, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons have introduced wonky veg lines that incentivise customers to buy "imperfect" vegetables.

It's a move designed to tackle the 12m tonnes of food waste created every year by UK households, hospitality and food service, food manufacture and the retail and wholesale sectors. And comes after high profile activists, including Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, have drawn increasing attention to the issue. With a value of more than 19bn a year, Wrap estimates that 75% of this food waste could be avoided (pdf).