A mobile application studying food waste in the United Kingdom has found out that around one million perfectly edible, freshly prepared meals end up in bins each day in cafes and restaurants in the country despite evidences suggesting tens of thousands of citizens rely on food banks to find something to eat.
In a Tuesday report, The Guardian newspaper published figures obtained from Too Good To Go, an app focused on food waste, showing that a total of 900,000 meals are thrown away by British food establishments each day because they haven’t been sold in time.
The findings indicated that around 320 million meals go to bins in the UK annually only in those establishments, a fact that has been mostly overlooked as most campaigns against food waste are focused on homes and supermarkets.
British government’s food waste advisory body Wrap estimates that the huge waste costs businesses over £2.5 million every week.
Hayley Conick, UK managing…