Each person in Germany throws out 82 kilos of food a year...

Germans chuck out nearly 82 kilos of food every year each, including fruit and vegetables that are the “wrong size” or do not look attractive, a new study has shown.

After conducting the first detailed investigation of its kind, Stuttgart University concluded each person in Germany is responsible for throwing away 81.6 kilos of food a year.

Nationally nearly 11 million tonnes of food is thrown out, just over 60 percent of which comes from private households, while a further 17 percent comes from large users such as restaurants, schools and canteens, and another 17 percent from industry. The remaining five percent of waste is accounted for by retailers.

 The study, published on Tuesday in Die Welt newspaper, was the first to look at all stages of food handling. Other studies had resulted in wildly differing estimates of waste – between 6.5 million to 20 million tonnes. Full story...

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