Britons throw away 1.4m edible bananas each day, figures show

Britons routinely bin 1.4m edible bananas every day at a cost of £80m a year, figures reveal. A third of consumers (30%) admit to discarding a banana if it has even a minor bruise or black mark on the skin. More than one in 10 (13%) also throw the fruit away if it shows any green on the skin. The figures, from the government’s waste advisory body Wrap, are being published on Monday by supermarket Sainsbury’s
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