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[[WRAP]] estimates the annual [[Food Waste]] arisings within households, hospitality & food service, food manufacture, retail and wholesale sectors in 2018 at around 9,500,000 tonnes (down from 11,200,000 tonnes in 2007), 70% of which was intended to be consumed by people (30% being the 'inedible parts')<ref name= "ref1"/>. Food Waste is part of wider reported figures on [[Organic Waste]] (on a dedicated Wikiwaste page) by [[DEFRA]], although these figures pre-date the [[WRAP]] figures.

In the graphic below (reproduced table 1 from the most recent [[WRAP]] briefing note<ref name= "ref1"/>) the total waste is split at around 6,400,000 tonnes of ~~edible~~ Food Waste ~~and 3~~,~~100~~,000 of ~~inedible~~ Food Waste (~~the~~ inedible ~~fraction shown red in~~ the ~~graphic~~ and ~~should not be added to the numbers in black or blue)~~.

In the graphic below (reproduced table 1 from the most recent [[WRAP]] briefing note<ref name= "ref1"/>) the total waste is split at around 6,400,000 tonnes of Food Waste from UK households. In June 2025 [[WRAP]] revised these figures for 2022, estimating a drop to 6,000,000 tonnes of Food Waste (of which 4.4m tonnes was edible and 1.6m tonnes was inedible) as a result of the 'COVID pandemic' and 'cost of living crisis'<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/media-centre/press-releases/household-food-waste-levels-threaten-uks-carbon-reduction-ambitions</ref>.

Figures in blue are not classed as Food Waste (food surplus) or by-products and so are not included in the figures in black. They included around 700,000 tonnes of food surplus from manufacturing, retail and hospitality and food services being redistributed via charitable and commercial routes or being diverted to produce animal feed (classified as waste prevention under the food material hierarchy and based on 2015 numbers). Management of all Food Waste has to comply with the [[Animal By-Products Order]] and some diversion, for example to animals, may require [[treatment]] to comply with the regulations.

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 [[WRAP]] estimates the annual [[Food Waste]] arisings within households, hospitality & food service, food manufacture, retail and wholesale sectors in 2018 at around 9,500,000 tonnes (down from 11,200,000 tonnes in 2007), 70% of which was intended to be consumed by people (30% being the 'inedible parts')<ref name= "ref1"/>. Food Waste is part of wider reported figures on [[Organic Waste]] (on a dedicated Wikiwaste page) by [[DEFRA]], although these figures pre-date the [[WRAP]] figures.
-In the graphic below (reproduced table 1 from the most recent [[WRAP]] briefing note<ref name= "ref1"/>) the total waste is split at around 6,400,000 tonnes of edible Food Waste and 3,100,000 of inedible Food Waste (the inedible fraction shown red in the graphic and should not be added to the numbers in black or blue).
+In the graphic below (reproduced table 1 from the most recent [[WRAP]] briefing note<ref name= "ref1"/>) the total waste is split at around 6,400,000 tonnes of Food Waste from UK households. In June 2025 [[WRAP]] revised these figures for 2022, estimating a drop to 6,000,000 tonnes of Food Waste (of which 4.4m tonnes was edible and 1.6m tonnes was inedible) as a result of the 'COVID pandemic' and 'cost of living crisis'<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/media-centre/press-releases/household-food-waste-levels-threaten-uks-carbon-reduction-ambitions</ref>.
 Figures in blue are not classed as Food Waste (food surplus) or by-products and so are not included in the figures in black. They included around 700,000 tonnes of food surplus from manufacturing, retail and hospitality and food services being redistributed via charitable and commercial routes or being diverted to produce animal feed (classified as waste prevention under the food material hierarchy and based on 2015 numbers). Management of all Food Waste has to comply with the [[Animal By-Products Order]] and some diversion, for example to animals, may require [[treatment]] to comply with the regulations.