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A lot of the food we waste could have been used for our lunches.  So check your fridge before you rush off to work – there might just be a free-lunch waiting in there!

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  • Over a third of the food we buy in Scotland is thrown directly in the bin and over half of this could have been eaten.
  • Over £889m worth of food is wasted by consumers in Scotland each year. That's an average of £410 per household!
  • If we stopped wasting all this food, we could prevent the equivalent of 1.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year in Scotland. This is the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.
  • Around 587,000 tonnes of food waste is thrown out by Scottish households each year.
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