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Old 27-12-2010, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 'Mike'[_4_] View Post

Something else I cannot get my head round is a statement on the lines of
'Nearly 45% (or some such huge figure) of all the food we buy is thrown away
as waste'!!!
Not in this house! We cook what we know we are going to eat. Peelings etc go
in the compost heap.
In this context, I believe the peelings are counted as "food", along with banana skins and used tea bags. And composting is counted as "wasted".
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