The Huffington Post UK report:

Since coming to office coalition ministers have been keen to tell Britons to stop wasting food – but government departments should probably be prepared to eat their own words.

Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have been throwing away more than five tonnes of unused food a month, a Freedom of Information Request by the Huffington Post UK has revealed.

The 5,300kg thrown away from DEFRA’s London and York offices this May is more than double the amount thrown away in January (2,253kg) and the equivalent weight of an armoured military truck.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.