Waste, why so much?

Australia is a very lucky country; we are lucky that most of us have plenty to eat and somewhere safe and warm to sleep. Did you know that most Australian food banks don’t have enough to feed the people that come to them for help? Food banks provide food for 88 000 meals each day and they don’t have enough to give. We found that very sad especially when we did some research into how much food gets wasted in our homes.
Australians spend billions of dollars on food each year, fruit and vegetables have to pass a beauty test before they are put on the shelf, if they don’t look perfect they get chucked out.
When you go shopping, don’t buy too much food that you don’t need. Always check your fridge, freezer and pantry just in case the food you are going to buy is already there. Australians waste 4 million tonnes of food each year! The food that gets chucked out has to go somewhere. When it gets dumped it rots and sends methane gas out into the atmosphere adding to the gasses in the Ozone Layer.
We think that food wastage occurs because people are too picky with their food, just because there is a tiny mark or bruise on it or it smells funny they won’t buy it. Also they buy too much and it goes off.