I was shocked to read recently that 9.5 million tons of food are thrown away every year in the UK alone. My answer to this is along the lines of WS Gilbert’s Mikado, making the punishment fit the crime. While the Emperor of Japan planned to have those convicted of cheating at billiards play for evermore ‘on a cloth untrue with a twisted cue’, I am determined to send food wasters to sea in small yachts with no refrigeration. Food’s a bit like water on a long passage. Unless you have a water maker or are an expert fisherman whose luck is permanently in, once it’s gone, it’s gone. So, waste not, want not.
Those who live on the sea, even for short periods, soon become experts at recycling food. My wife Roz and I spent so long on the oceans without a fridge that, although we’re based
