Could recipe boxes offer a helping hand to food waste efforts?

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Increasingly popular meal-in-a-kit boxes could offer big food waste savings, but are these benefits negated by the huge quantities of packaging required?

It's easy to see the appeal. You're on your way home after a long day's work and, rather than traipsing around a supermarket desperately thinking of something easy and healthy to make for dinner - or else...

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