Turning the fridge 負かす/撃墜する from 7C to 4C could save families £200million a year in wasted food

  • 政府 waste Quango WRAP 設立する fridge 気温 has an 衝撃 on shelf life
  • Householders could save 700,000 トンs of food 毎年 if they get 気温 権利

Money saver: Turning down the temperature on your fridge could save a fortune

Money saver: Turning 負かす/撃墜する the 気温 on your fridge could save a fortune

Families could save £200million a year by lowering their fridge 気温 by just three degrees, 専門家s say.

Most food would have its shelf life 延長するd by three days if householders 減ずるd 気温s from 7C to 4C.

WRAP, the 政府’s waste quango, has 熟考する/考慮するd 普通の/平均(する) 気温s in Britain’s fridge-freezers and the 衝撃 on shelf life.

It 設立する householders could save 700,000 トンs of food 毎年.

The extra energy costs for keeping an 器具 cooler are more than 相殺する by the 貯金 on food waste, it 報告(する)/憶測s.

逮捕する 貯金 of £200million could be made ? even when hefty 力/強力にする 法案s are taken into account.

There was an 全体にわたる 削減 of 210,000 トンs of CO2 放出/発行s thanks to 消費者s needing to 取って代わる いっそう少なく food, it 設立する.

報告(する)/憶測 authors Tim Brown and Professor Judith Evans, from London South Bank University ,said: ‘Even at the more energy 集中的な 4C, the extra energy 要求するd to refrigerate such foods was only 概算の to have an 年次の UK cost of £10million and associated 放出/発行s of 47,000 トンs CO2. Both financially and environmentally the 貯金 far outweigh the energy 刑罰,罰則.’

About 4.4million トンs of 世帯 food is binned a year. Some 800,000 トンs of that is discarded because 消費者s 恐れる they have not used it in time.

Most of it should be frozen to eat later but families often let it spoil in their fridges.

WRAP is also 勧めるing 製造業者s and retailers to stop putting ‘凍結する on date of 購入(する)’ stickers on food because 消費者s often wrongly assume it would not be 安全な to 凍結する later, even if it is within its expiry date.

It also wants to see labels 明言する/公表するing ‘keep refrigerated below 5C’ on 一括ing.

Costly: It is estimated that the average family wastes £480 worth of food each year and overloading fridges doesn't help matters

高くつく/犠牲の大きい: It is 概算の that the 普通の/平均(する) family wastes £480 価値(がある) of food each year and overloading fridges doesn't help 事柄s

The 報告(する)/憶測 also 警告するs that overloading fridges can be a 高くつく/犠牲の大きい mistake.

‘If fridges are 負担d to 十分な levels, gaps between 製品s (which w ould 普通は 許す 空気/公表する 循環/発行部数) may become 封鎖するd.’

It is 概算の that the 普通の/平均(する) family wastes £480 価値(がある) of food each year.

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