Brown urges cut in food waste

The British prime minister has called on Britons to make saving food as important as saving energy, the Guardian reported. A government report said more than 4 million tonnes of food are wasted each year.
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Gordon Brown is attending the first day of the G8 summit in Japan, where rising food and energy prices will be high on the agenda.

Brown was quoted saying: "If we are to get food prices down, we must also do more to deal with unnecessary demand – such as all of us doing more to cut food waste which is costing the average household in Britain around £8 [US$16] per week."

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