Cut down on the amount of food you waste European Week for Waste Reduction Next week is the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR), which takes place across Europe between the 17 th to the 25 th of November 2012 . The EWWR raises awareness of the need for waste reduction and encourages people to make small changes to help reduce the amount of rubbish thrown in the bin. This year,Waste Awareness Wales and the Love Food Hate Waste campaign are joining forces with the EWWR to highlight the importance of reducing the amount of food we throw away in Wales. Householders in Wales produce enough rubbish to fill the Millennium Stadium every 20 days, while around 410,000 tonnes of food and drink is thrown away by people in Wales each year. As well as wasting precious resources and money, when food ends up in landfill it decomposes and produces harmful greenhouse gases which can have 25 times more impact on global temperature than carbon dioxide. Georgina Taubman, of Waste Awareness Wales is urging as many people as possible to take part in the EWWR and change the way they view their food. She says: "Every year in Wales we throw away over 600 million worth of good food and drink -- that's an average of 50 a month per household. This is not only a terrible waste of resources, but also of our hard earned cash. "Much of this waste is avoidable. The two main reasons why we waste