'Everyone along the food chain, from producers to consumers, can play a role in preventing food waste'

If carbon is the head of the household when it comes to emissions, then methane is the wayward family member that brings explosive trouble on a regular basis

'Sadly, the bulk of landfill globally is poorly managed. There have been substantial improvements nationally. But we still do have methane emissions from our landfill inventory.'

As challenges go, it is one of the steepest and most ambitious of all — reducing our collective waste of food by 380,000 tonnes a year by the end of the decade.

Food waste is a burgeoning problem throughout the Western world, and Irish people are as culpable as any when it comes to throwing things away because they’ve bought too much, or let items go bad.