 However, research has been undertaken into household food waste, supermarket food waste and hospitality sector food waste.The Environment Select Committee held a briefing into foodwaste in 2018.A Waste Not Consulting report to the Ministry for the Environment “Household Waste Data 2008”, calculated that, in 2008, 1,048,993 tonnes of waste were generated by the residential sector, an average of 260 kg per person or 676 kg per household per annum.