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Get your free copy12 December 2011, 14:42 PM
- Britain will spend a massive £3.3 billion on food for the Christmas table this year, and discard 20% of it
The average Brit household will splash out £133.70 on food for its Christmas table, according to a national survey commissioned by food waste disposer maker InSinkErator.
That equates to – (*based on 25 million occupied UK households pinpointed in the 2011 Census statistics provided by the Office for National Statistics) a huge £3.3 billion food spend in the UK this coming Christmas.
The InSinkErator survey, which polled 3,000 Brits across the nation**, also discovered that 56% of householders admit they will throw away between 20% – 30% of that extra Christmas food as waste this year – a minimum of £600 million of Christmas food thrown directly into our dustbins.
The knock-on effect of that extraordinary wastage is that 66% of the nation will use between two and four extra bin bags to discard their unwanted Christmas food in 2011 – approximately 50 million bin bags of extra rubbish just for unwanted Christmas Day food (based on two-thirds of the nation using 3 extra bin bags on Christmas Day).
That extra waste also contributes significantly to the 30 extra ‘tidying up’ hours that almost half the nation (49%) claims it will undertake during the annual Christmas break.
