Save our spuds: Binning edible potatoes costs UK £230m a year

Michael Holder
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Figures from Love Food Hate Waste campaign reveal huge scale of UK's potato waste mountain

Households bin a "staggering" 5.8 million potatoes every day in the UK costing the nation £230m a year, figures from waste advisory body WRAP have revealed. Up to 1.7 million tonnes of potatoes are...

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