The Guardian gets righteous over wasted eggs:
Britons are throwing away 720m eggs every year – three times more than in 2008 and at a cost of £139m – according to research.
The scale of waste has been blamed on overcautious consumers relying on best-before dates to decide if eggs are fresh enough to eat, and the growing popularity of vegetarian and “flexitarian” diets has boosted overall sales.
Last year sales of eggs in the UK were 7.2bn – a 4% rise on the previous year – according to recent figures from the British Egg Industry Council.720 million eggs sounds a lot. But actually it is less than 12 eggs per head of population. For every person in the UK to chuck away 12 eggs in a year does not seem so bad.
Furthermore, if the total eggs sold in Britain number 7.2 billion, then the level of wastage is a mere 1%.
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