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DVRs levelling off at about half of all US TV households

2013-12-06 21:00:11| Digital TV News

Research from Leichtman Research has found that 47% of TV households in the US have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR) -- an increase from 40% in 2010, and 23% in 2007.

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Households 'gloomier over finances'

2013-11-18 01:03:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

New figures suggest that householders are feeling less optimistic about their finances than at any time since April.

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UK households waste 60 of food a month, figures show

2013-11-07 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The average UK family is wasting nearly 60 a month by throwing away almost an entire meal a day, according to a new report that reveals the scale of the ongoing challenge to reduce household food waste. Britons are chucking out the equivalent of 24 meals a month, adding up to 4.2 million tonnes of food and drink every year that could have been consumed. Almost half of this is going straight from fridges or cupboards into the bin. One-fifth of what households buy ends up as waste, and around 60%...

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United Kingdom: Households are throwing away six meals a week as the nation bins 'staggering' amount of food and drink

2013-11-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: The average household is throwing away six meals or 3kg of food each and every week despite rising bills - costing families 60 a month. Experts last night called for a combined effort from Ministers and high street stores to do even more to bring down the "staggering" amount of waste in the nation's kitchens. Wrap, the environmental campaign group, said 4.2 million tonnes of "avoidable" food waste - food which could have been eaten - is binned each year, including 320,000 tonnes of potatoes,...

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