How Scotland has food waste all wrapped up
Doggy bags are a touch taboo. Whispering to a waiter you’d like that forty quid fillet steak wrapped up in tin foil feels a bit a bit cheap. Most of us prefer to go without than risk looking tacky as we sidle out of a restaurant, brown paper bag under one arm.
Confronted with the news that 53,500 tonnes of food is wasted by Scottish restaurants each year, two thirds of which could’ve been avoided, more than 100 restaurants have now signed up to the government’s Good to Go scheme. Diners now don’t even have to ask, with staff handing over leftovers in branded boxes as a matter of course. It’s a simple change, but one experts say could rescue 800,000 meals from the bin each year.
