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Why a third of food goes in the bin

Focus: We are encouraged to recycle, but pay £424 per year each for foodstuff that is discarded, writes Calum Macdonald.

UNDERNEATH a caricature of Hitler giving the Nazi salute, the propaganda slogan ran: "Waste the Food and Help the Hun."

During the Second World War, wasting food was not only a crime punishable by heavy fines, but near treasonous.