Irish Examiner View: We need to start tackling food waste

Buying mindfully means only purchasing the food we need.

A considerable amount of Christmas food will end up in the bin, as it does every year. File Picture.

Judging by the lengthy trolley queues outside supermarkets in the run-up to Christmas Day, fridges and presses across the country are still full to the brim with food. 

Unless entire armies were dining at the tables of Ireland this Christmas, it is hard to envisage how all of this could be consumed in a couple of days.