Just Eat cooks up 'waste less' chip portion in bid to cut takeaway food waste

  Just Eat to trial smaller portion size as chips named most likely takeaway food to be thrown away

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Smaller chip portions help cut food waste (Credit: Just Eat)
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Smaller chip portions help cut food waste (Credit: Just Eat)

A new study by Just Eat and environmental charity Hubbub, dubbed the Food Waste Race, has found that chips are the most wasted takeaway food, with 72 per cent of the study's participants saying they had...

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