{"id":12177,"date":"2019-04-24T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:49:45","slug":"food-waste-global-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/food-waste-global-problem","title":{"rendered":"Why Food Waste Is A Global Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Did you know that the average UK home spends around \u00a3700* a year on food that goes in the bin?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stop Food Waste | Gousto\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hCqSUwakP-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In total, we\u2019re talking 7 million tons of wasted food which could have been eaten every year, just in the UK. That\u2019s 920,000 whole bananas that could have been sliced onto cereal. 3.1 million glasses of milk that could have been poured into cups of tea. 720,000 whole oranges that could have been made into juice. All ending up in landfill.**<\/p>\n<p>But food waste isn\u2019t just expensive, it\u2019s also damaging the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Food that ends up in landfill produces greenhouse gases. In fact, if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases behind the USA and China. Currently, UK food waste produces 5 million tons of CO2 a year, and cutting that would be like taking 2.2 million cars off the road.*<\/p>\n<h2>How does Gousto reduce food waste?<\/h2>\n<p>We buy fresh food from our suppliers, based on the actual number of customer orders, rather than guessing in advance (which is how supermarkets stock their shelves). We send you precise, perfectly-measured ingredients, so you have what you need to prepare the right portions, no more, no less. Minimal food waste in our factory. No wasted ingredients for you.<\/p>\n<p>That means you can say goodbye to mouldy half-full cans of coconut milk in the fridge, or unused jars of nigella seeds in the spice rack, and hello to the right portions and zero food waste! Wins all round.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for other ways to reduce food waste? Check out more of our sustainability blog posts, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/food-scraps-edible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12 Food Scraps You Didn\u2019t Know Were Edible.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Source: Love Food Hate Waste, 2015<\/p>\n<p>** Source: Love Food Hate Waste, 2012[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Did you know that the average UK home spends around \u00a3700* a year on food that goes in the bin? In total, we\u2019re talking 7 million tons of wasted food which could have been eaten every year, just in the UK. That\u2019s 920,000 whole bananas that could have been sliced onto cereal. 3.1 million &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/food-waste-global-problem\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Food Waste Is A Global Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":12232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[644,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reduce-food-waste","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/gousto.gurucloud.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sustainability_Blog-image_1200x600px_AW.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sophie","author_link":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/author\/sophie"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Food Waste Is A Global Problem | Gousto Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did you know that UK food waste produces 5 million tons of CO2 a year? 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