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# food waste

Last year
2022
UK labour shortage causes unpicked food to rot in fields
Ukrainians had temporarily partly filled the gap but since the Russian invasion many have been stuck in their homeland.
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Aug 15th 2022, 8:26 PM
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Bread is Ireland’s most wasted food with 41% of people admitting they throw it out
We seemed to be less wasteful with food during lockdown.
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Sep 29th 2020, 7:10 PM
Store spuds outside the bag: Tips and tricks for reducing your food waste
Here are some handy ideas to make sure you get the most out of your weekly shop.
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Sep 16th 2020, 11:29 AM
'A hidden problem': Up to half of food provided to patients in Irish hospitals is not eaten
The HSE said it is working to implement guidelines in hospitals to address food waste.
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Aug 5th 2019, 12:05 AM
Public urged not to put food waste down the sink to prevent 'fatbergs' building up
Over €7 million is spent every year by Irish Water dealing with fatbergs in public pipes.
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Apr 12th 2019, 3:35 PM
Lidl doesn't plan to launch its £1.50 damaged fruit and veg boxes in Ireland
The scheme is being rolled out across of all Lidl’s stores in England, Scotland and Wales.
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Mar 29th 2019, 6:30 AM
From the garden: Grow, Cook, Eat is back on TV this month and we'll be tackling food waste
We’ll be teaching you to grow onions, pumpkins, sweetcorn, courgettes, kale, beans and chillis for all shapes and sizes of gardens, writes Michael Kelly.
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Mar 9th 2019, 12:00 PM
‘It’s a bit like Ready Steady Cook’: How FoodCloud and charities are fighting food poverty in the west of Ireland
As charities see demand increase this Christmas, the team behind FoodCloud is making things a little easier.
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Dec 25th 2018, 12:45 PM
Researchers say plastic is 'indispensable' so they're trying to make it more sustainable
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
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Sep 2nd 2018, 8:00 AM
A third of fruit and veg 'too ugly' to sell
More than 50 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables are discarded each year in Europe.
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Aug 20th 2018, 4:00 PM
Lidl Ireland not rolling out cheaper prices for damaged fruit and veg as this is already donated to charity
Branches in Great Britain have started offering five kilo boxes of slightly damaged produce for £1.50.
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Aug 3rd 2018, 9:20 PM
Plans for new plant in Laois to turn brown bin waste into renewable gas
This gas will be injected into the national grid for supply through the existing gas network to homes and commercial businesses.
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Jul 29th 2018, 8:30 AM
'Why are you throwing away so many chips?': How east Cork is tackling its food waste
A new initiative is helping businesses move towards a zero food waste strategy.
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Feb 4th 2018, 8:00 AM
China took 95% of Ireland's plastic waste - but now it's changed its mind and we're in trouble
Ireland is the top producer of plastic waste in the European Union.
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Jan 9th 2018, 6:00 AM
Plans to encourage shoppers to remove food packaging and recycle at supermarket exits
Minister Denis Naughten is looking at introducing large-scale recycling bins outside supermarkets in a bid to tackle waste at source.
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Jul 3rd 2017, 6:20 AM
Farmers use maggots to tackle China's mountain of food waste
There is a lot of money to be made from maggot animal feed and manure.
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Jun 3rd 2017, 4:00 PM
Do you waste food? This Dragons' Den investor wants supermarkets and shoppers to cut it out
Ireland generates over one million tonnes of food waste per year.
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Mar 9th 2017, 6:03 AM
Supermarkets' obsession with perfect produce is causing massive food waste
The UN said this week that if it was reversed, then the wastage could feed the worlds’ hungry.
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Nov 13th 2016, 9:30 AM
How does it feel to pitch to Richard Branson for €1.2m? This Irish company is about to find out...
Foodcloud’s Iseult Ward is among six finalists who will pitch to the Virgin Group founder for a share of the €1.2 million prize.
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Jun 26th 2016, 9:45 AM
Should we ban supermarkets from destroying edible food?
France introduced a similar law recently.
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May 31st 2015, 7:00 AM
It is now illegal in France for supermarkets to throw away food
But they can donate it all to charities, or for animal feed.
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May 22nd 2015, 12:02 AM
How two students saved enough food for 325,000 meals from the rubbish
Meet some of Ireland’s most promising “social entrepreneurs” who were awarded for their work last night.
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Nov 13th 2014, 7:30 AM
Someone's come up with a fix for the 'brown bin' smell
Entrepreneurs will stock product in Dunnes Stores – but reckon it will be a hit export too.
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Jul 28th 2014, 6:45 PM
Are 'buy one get one free' offers just filling up your bins?
A House of Lords Committee in the UK has blamed supermarkets for adding to high levels of food waste with these offers but experts in Ireland said everyone has their part to play in reducing this.
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Apr 13th 2014, 8:00 AM
This infographic shows just how much food we waste
1.3bn tonnes, in fact.
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Mar 28th 2014, 7:30 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Good morning, want to know what’s making headlines this morning? It’s all here.
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Mar 12th 2014, 8:40 AM
Irish households 'waste €700 a year' throwing out rotten food
SafeFood says the average home could save quite a bit of money by adopting a “eat it or freeze it” model.
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May 6th 2013, 3:02 PM
Why half of the world's food goes to waste
Mechanical Engineers Institute explains wastage occurs both at farmer-producer end of food chain and consumer level.
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Jan 14th 2013, 7:15 AM
Want to cut food waste? Check the dates, says safefood
New research by safefood shows that almost a third of consumers believe ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates on food labels mean the same thing.
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Nov 18th 2012, 11:56 AM
Feeding the 5000: How food wastage inspired a movement
Feeding the 5000 will hold an event in Dublin on 24 November where 5000 people will be fed a free meal using food that wouldn’t reach supermarkets – despite being perfectly edible.
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Nov 10th 2012, 1:00 PM
Irish restaurants lose €125m per year by throwing away food: survey
One-in-two people admit to regularly over ordering and leaving food behind, according to new research.
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Sep 19th 2011, 7:00 AM
Column: We throw a third of our food away - and it's polluting our country
As famine hits in Somalia, a mind-boggling amount of Irish food is literally piling up in landfills. Tara Connolly explains.
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Aug 4th 2011, 8:36 AM