7 ways to… reduce your food waste

etween 33-50 per cent of all food produced globally is never eaten (). Let that sink in for a moment. That’s up to half of all food, wasted. The value of this surplus food is worth more than $1 trillion USD, as well as countless squandered resources, including water, land, fertiliser and fuel for transportation (and animal lives, within the meat, egg and dairy industries). At the same time, 800 million people go to bed hungry every single night. That equates to one in nine people around the world, starving or malnourished. This market failure and massive inequality needs to be overhauled. But what can we do at home? We can start by reducing our household food waste. Here are seven ideas to get