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The staggering amounts of money we're wasting

Globally, around one-third of all food that’s produced is wasted, meanwhile we’re buying 60% more clothing than in 2000 yet keeping it for half as long. For one thing, this takes a terrible toll on the planet, as mountains of garbage from Western countries end up in southeast Asia and plastic ends up in the ocean. But it’s also causing us to throw crazy amounts of money down the drain each year, as we'll show you.

Frances Carruthers

11 November 2019

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  • 18 February 2020

    Fee oaying bank accounts are not necessarily a bad idea. I pay Nationwide £13 a month, or £156 a year, for an account, mainly for its benefits. Before I left the AA, they wanted more or less the full £156 just for car cover for me and my wife. In addition, I get (family) mobile phone cover, which my wife and I both had to claim on last year, and worldwide (family) travel cover. The travel cover even covers me (for a small additional premium) after having had cancer. I don't need to have a fee paying bank account, but it is saving me a lot of money.

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  • 18 February 2020

    The wastage of food and clothing is horrendous and immoral, but I am not sure that the 'waste' for data allowances is 'real'. I have the cheapest possible deal for my mobile phone (about six pounds a month); it comes with an amount of included data allowance well above what I will ever use, but I don't have an option of having a lower allowance. As far as I know, unused data allowances do not do anyone any actual harm!

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