unhealthy foods tend to be three times cheaper than more expensive healthy food Source: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/the-broken-plate-report/
The poorest 10% of UK households would need to spend 74% of their disposable income on food to meet the Eatwell Guide costs – the Government’s official healthy eating guide Source: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/the-broken-plate-report/
Palm oil is found in 50% of supermarket products, from food to cleaners to cosmetics Source: https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/palm-oil
The top supermarkets are creating a plastic waste problem of more than 800,000 tonnes each year – well over half of all annual UK household plastic waste of 1.5m tonnes 800,000 tonnes of waste from food and beverage products would fill enough large 10-yard skips to extend from London to
46% of food and drink advertising goes on confectionery, sweet and savoury snacks and soft drinks; while only 2.5% goes on fruit and vegetables Source: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/the-broken-plate-report/
A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021 Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/a-million-a-minute-worlds-plastic-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change
On average UK supermarkets and retailers pay £18 per tonne towards recycling, whereas in other European countries, businesses pay up to £133 per tonne for recycling Supermarkets in the UK pay less towards collecting and recycling their plastic waste than in any other European country – leaving taxpayers to pick
Unprecedented growth in the production and sale of plastics is triggering disastrous environmental consequences. Plastic production has increased twentyfold in the past half-century and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. In the 60 years since large-scale production of plastics began, 79% of plastic waste globally has
10 million tonnes of food goes to waste in the UK every year. That’s as weighty as about 790,000 double-decker buses. Source: https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate-change/live-sustainably-how-be-conscious-consumer
Each search will vary slightly and Google searches may have become more efficient in the last decade. Source: https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/
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