Wasting food has become a way of life for many Londoners who, according to one Western-led study, are tossing an average of $600 into the trash every year.
Wasting food has become a way of life for many Londoners who, according to one Western-led study, are tossing an average of $600 into the trash every year.
While the data comes from surveying 1,300 households in just one city, the trend is almost certainly echoed in communities across Canada, explained Paul van der Werf, an environmental consultant and project advisor with Western’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL Lab).
Van der Werf served as lead author of the paper, Food for Naught, newly published in Canadian Geographer.
“London is a mid-sized city with a an ‘average’ population. If we want to look at Hamilton, Saskatoon, Vancouver, maybe some of their answers would be different. But I don’t think they would be that different; this is quite replicable,” he said, noting a Swiss study with similar methodology had similar findings.
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