UK restaurants and cafes bin 320m fresh meals a year, data shows
by Rebecca Smithers Consumer affairs correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#40Y2J)
Almost 900,000 unsold meals are chucked out a day, according to food waste app Too Good To Go
Almost 900,000 perfectly edible, freshly prepared meals end up in the bin in the UK every day, new figures reveal, because they haven't been sold in time by restaurants and cafes.
This means that more than 320m meals are thrown away by British food establishments every year - enough meals for everyone in the UK five times over, according to food waste app Too Good To Go.
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