You're invited to a free lunch for 5000 people

On the 16th December between 12pm-2pm in Trafalgar Square, London a free lunch made from delicious ingredients that would otherwise have been wasted will be prepared for 5000 people.

Feeding the 5000 aims to highlight the ease of cutting the unimaginable levels of food waste in the UK and internationally.

Find out how to get there using Transport for London's Journey Planner.

A few facts you might not have known...

10% of rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions come from growing food that is never eaten.

UK Households waste 25% of all the food they buy.

All the world's nearly one billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe.

An estimated 20 to 40% of UK fruit and vegetables rejected even before they reach the shops - mostly because they do not match the supermarkets' excessively strict cosmetic standards.

The bread and other cereal products thrown away in UK households alone would have been enough to lift 30 million of the world's hungry people out of malnourishment.

24 to 35% of school lunches end up in the bin.

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