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Fighting food waste requires reducing waste in the first place

The next time you throw away food from the fridge because it has passed its expiry date, or it has sat there getting mouldy because you felt like eating something else, think again about your eating habits.

The next time you throw away food from the fridge because it has passed its expiry date, or it has sat there getting mouldy because you felt like eating something else, think again about your eating habits. In your own way, with that spoilt meat or foul-smelling fish-head curry, you are contributing to a mountain of food waste that is only growing bigger even amid efforts to tackle the problem at all parts of the supply chain, including commercial and industrial sources as well as households.