Irish households waste about €700 worth of food every year, according to the EPA.
It's released a new report, detailing Ireland's waste trends in 2020.
It found waste generation continues to increase, jumping from over 12 million tonnes to 16 million tonnes in less than a decade.
While households are still generating too much waste, the commercial sector, especially construction, remains the biggest culprit.
Warren Phelan, manager of the EPA's Circular Economy Programme, there are ways to help cut back:
"You'd like to see in the introduction of mandatory incentivize waste charges for commercial customers incentivizing good behavior so rewarding those businesses that in the first instance are reducing their waste, but also the waste they are generating that a rewarded for good behaviors that we'll see them placing those materials into relevant things."
