If your fridge is typical, there’s probably a collection of over-ripe produce, a few stale-dated jars of condiments and a chunk or two of cheese slowly going bad in the back. In the US and the UK (there are no local statistics, but the trend surely holds for Canada), the average family throws away about one-third of the food they purchase.
In the UK this equates to roughly 1.3 million unopened yogurts, 660,000 eggs, 5.1 million potatoes and 2.8 million tomatoes being thrown away—every day.
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