Scientists reveal the four things you can do to limit your food waste - including APOLOGISING to binned items Japanese scientists provide tips to deter you from binning fridge food READ MORE: What's your food waste style? Households fit into three categories By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline Published: 16:39, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 16:45, 22 July 2024 e-mail 1 View comments With around 9.5 million tonnes of food wasted in the UK alone, there's no doubt we need to get better at eating up our leftovers. Letting good food rot is not only a tragic waste, but is a source of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas that causes global warming .
Now, scientists in Japan have come up with four tips to reduce the amount of food from your fridge that ends up in the bin. From storing leftovers in transparent containers to even apologizing to your food, here's how to save the edible remnants in your refrigerator. So, would you try them? Scientists in Japan have come up with four tips to reduce the amount of food from your fridge that ends up in the bin 1.
TOP TO BOTTOM Often when we open our fridge we're presented with a disorderly chaos of containers, foil wrappers and half-finished jars. Very few of us store items based on age, meaning the remains from last night's dinner are sat next to the veg from last weekend's roast. Kohei Watanabe and Tomoko Okayama, waste management scientists at Teikyo University in Tokyo, suggest a simple rule – putting the items that are closest to expiring .