Irish Examiner View: Let's be proactive about food waste

Every household throws out €700 worth of edible food every year.

It seems much easier to be sanctimonious about food waste and its immoral, climate-destroying consequences than it is to do anything real to curb what surely must be the very epitome of a first-world problem.

In another chastening but welcome report highlighting the errors of our ways, the Environmental Protection Agency pointed out that an average household throws out edible food worth €700 every year.