Britain bins 10.2 million tonnes of food a year.
Supermarkets decide much of where it ends up. Help us put it on the record, store by store.
Food thrown away in the UK since you opened this page
Running at WRAP's annual rates: one tonne every 3 seconds. Sources
A tonne every three seconds.
of food that could have been eaten is thrown away in the UK every year. That's more than £60 million a day.
WRAP Key Facts, Jul 2025. 2021 prices, edible food after the farm gate.
meals' worth of edible food is wasted in UK homes alone every year. Three meals a week for every person.
WRAP, household waste 2022, 420 g per meal.
cars on UK roads. That's the climate cost of household food waste: at least 16 million tonnes of greenhouse gases a year.
WRAP, 2022 data.
The 2% they want you to see.
Supermarkets' own reported waste is a sliver of the total. But they set the cosmetic standards that reject crops on farms, and the multibuys and pack sizes that fill our bins at home.
Each square is 1% of the UK's 10.2 million tonnes. WRAP Key Facts, Jul 2025.
Retail's 234,000 tonnes is still about 640 tonnes a day. And it's the only part of the chain where companies choose what to publish.
Farm waste is the least measured of all. Estimates run from 0.9 to 3.5 million tonnes.
Meanwhile, children go hungry.
children in the UK are growing up in poverty. More than 1 in 4.
DWP Households Below Average Income, 2024/25, after housing costs.
children live in homes that can't reliably afford food. 1 in 6 households with children, and more than 1 in 4 single-parent families.
Food Foundation Food Insecurity Tracker, June 2026.
emergency food parcels went to children through Trussell food banks in 2025.
Trussell, 2025.
children under five live in a household facing food insecurity.
Trussell / Ipsos, Hunger in the UK 2025.
Five-year-olds in the poorest areas of England are more than twice as likely to have tooth decay (32% vs 14%).
DHSC Oral Health Survey, 2024.
For every tonne rescued, 29 are binned.
In 2024 charities redistributed 210,000 tonnes of surplus food, about 500 million meals. Supermarkets gave 46% of it. Set against 6.1 million tonnes of edible food wasted, that's 1 tonne saved for every 29 thrown away.
WRAP redistribution survey 2024; WRAP Key Facts 2025 (2021/22 data).
Marking their own homework.
No UK supermarket has to publish its food waste. Each one that does picks its own definition. Grocers with 39% of the market publish no current tonnage at all.
Figures are self-reported, use different definitions and years, and none include waste pushed into supply chains. Market share: Worldpanel by Numerator, 12 weeks to 4 Oct 2026.
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| Retailer | Market share | Latest food waste figure | Redistributed to people | Data year | Source |
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The waste you never see.
France made it law. We made it optional.
Ministers decide whether this stays optional. Tell them, in your own words, from your own inbox.
Write to a ministerMake it the law.
A petition to Parliament asks for a law like France's. Supermarkets would have to discount, redistribute or donate unsold food that's safe to eat, and could only throw it away if it's unsafe.
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Sources and methods
Every figure on this page comes from a named public source. Where we've done arithmetic (per day, per second, meal equivalents, ratios) we've used the source's own totals and WRAP's 420 g meal standard. Data years are shown next to each figure because different datasets cover different years.