Did you know it was illegal for restaurants to let you take left-overs home for the dog? It's in case you eat it yourself and sue the chef if you are ill. Of course many restaurants just ignore that and hand over a tin foil package.
Now in a new raft of measures aimed at reducing food waste, the government will allow food to be taken away rather than binned. Rather more significant will be the requirement for supermarkets over 400 m2 to arrange contracts with charities or composting bodies to take their waste food. Many of us are too fastidious with sell or use by dates and cause supermarkets to throw away tons of food which can be completely edible.
Yet that only amounts to 5% of the total food waste, the biggest culprits being us at home. Here at Mas del Sol lots of our waste is eaten by dogs and donkeys or goes into the compost bin. But we could make more effort - do readers have any "good practice" ideas they can pass on?
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