Aug 18, 2026 · 6 min · 7 segments
How can technology and kitchen creativity solve Ireland's food waste problem? Host Meghann Scully chats with three experts who are tackling food waste from three completely different angles—from…
Changing consumer behaviour when eating out is one thing, but we've also got to think about where we consume most of our food.
We've seen studies that say about every person in Ireland wastes about 149 kilograms of food a year, I think it is.
So it's quite a lot.
That's just on overbuying, maybe not... taking into account best before dates or
OK, if you're looking around the house, that's around the weight of your washing machine and your dishwasher in food waste.
So if all this food is going straight into the bin, we need to completely rethink how we eat, how many offcuts and trimmings we just throw straight into the bin and how big our portions are.
Changing consumer behaviour when eating out is one thing, but we've also got to think about where we consume most of our food.
We've seen studies that say about every person in Ireland wastes about 149 kilograms of food a year, I think it is.
So it's quite a lot.
That's just on overbuying, maybe not... taking into account best before dates or
OK, if you're looking around the house, that's around the weight of your washing machine and your dishwasher in food waste.
So if all this food is going straight into the bin, we need to completely rethink how we eat, how many offcuts and trimmings we just throw straight into the bin and how big our portions are.
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