Life Hack: Four easy ways to reduce food waste and save hundreds of meals each year

If just 10 households reduced their food waste by 25%, it could save around 650 meals each year.

The nation wastes more than one million meals every single day. Picture: iStock

How much food waste do you think you generate each year? It’s likely more than you’d guess.

Environmental Protection Agency figures published earlier this year, show the massive scale of Ireland’s food waste problem. Irish households are responsible for 221,000 tonnes of food waste each year. The nation as a whole wastes approximately 835,000 tonnes of food annually, equivalent to over 1m meals every single day.