In Briton the average person throws away £13.30 worth of wasted food per month, a total of £159.60 per year. Just think what you could use this money for instead! Nationwide this amounts to   £7,660,800,000 of food ending up in the bin each year. Yoghurts, sandwich meat and lettuce are the most commons things to throw away. In the western world this amounts to 30% of our household waste collected from our homes.

We need to prevent this food from being wasted in the first place and think of ways to do this: e.g. planning ahead when food shopping, only buy what you need, look at how we store the food and understand the useby dates.

Obviously we understand there is going to be some food waste especially from fuit and vegetable scraps/ peelings, tea bags and egg shells. For these compostable items home composters and the green cone are great for disposing of such items, which means your preventing toxic green house gasses being emitted into the environment, at the same time your producing compost for the garden.

Green cone limited sell the green cones and composters- their website is  http://www.greencone.com/