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A recipe memory, with room for change
Record the portion a remembered dish was cooked for: serving too much caused 25% of the 4.4 million tonnes of edible food UK homes binned in 2022.
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A week of less food waste, together
Count one recurring food for seven days: UK homes wasted 65 kg of edible food per person in 2022, worth £260, about £5 and 1.25 kg a week each.
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Compare two meal plans without judging the cook
Score both plans on the four reasons UK homes binned 4.4 million tonnes of edible food in 2022, from serving too much at 25% to label dates at 17%.
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Make a shared kitchen experiment fair
Split the experiment into noticing, recording and deciding, and fix a stop date: serving too much was 25% of UK household edible food waste in 2022.
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One shopping list for changing plans
Give each item an amount, a state and a time stamp: food not used in time was 39% of the 4.4 million tonnes UK homes binned in 2022, £6.86 billion.
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What a food-waste statistic actually counts
The EU's 130 kg per person in 2023 counts edible and inedible parts across five sectors; households are 53% of it, or 69 kg per inhabitant.
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What is different about preventing waste and composting?
Prevention is first in the EU food use and waste hierarchy; composting sits four steps lower under waste treatment, ahead only of energy recovery and disposal.
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When pack sizes do not fit your household
Divide pack price by the amount you have a plan for: a 750 g pack at £3.75 costs £9.38 per kilogram used when only 400 g is eaten, against £5.00 on the shelf.
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Where does our household waste actually go?
Look up the service for the address, then the item: England sent 50.3% of local authority collected waste to incineration and 5.5% to landfill in 2024/25.
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