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Leftover food thrown in the trash

A hand scraping three uneaten slices of tomato pizza off a wooden board into a kitchen bin already filled with discarded vegetable peels and food scraps.

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Perfectly edible slices of homemade tomato pizza being tipped into a kitchen trash bin alongside other food scraps — an everyday illustration of how much uneaten food households throw away.

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