says £10 billion worth of food is thrown away every year, and the government and supermarkets need to act. claire marshall has more. mostly mixed in with other waste, we throw more than £10 billion worth of food every year. the committee calls it "a scandal." councils have to raise bills to dispose of it. and this is happening while food bank use is at a record high. last year, the average household threw away £470 worth of food. those with children, around £700. the average person in the uk, £200. we are all likely to have packets with dates on them. and they can be confusing. so this is the key one — it's the use by date. it says i should not eat these after the 3rd of may because it may not be safe. these have best before dates on them. i can eat this after the 5th, but it mightjust not be at its best. the best before date, i believe, can be scrapped. it is unnecessary. it means food is wasted and some will not eat it when it goes beyond the date. i always make sure i throw away the food the day before, or two days before, it is out of date. i suppose i go by what the product looks like. i will eat it if it looks good. i am a fussy eater. i like to stick to them, but i feel bad sometimes about throwing it, though. customers at a pioneering project in leeds browse food others have thrown out. three tons arrive every day. adam smith is the founder. we have to stop it. we cannot wait another generation. it is destroying the planet. so much produce is being thrown away. just for a day. it's nonsense. mps also say we need tougher food waste targets and that we need to learn to love our wonky veg. claire marshall, bbc news. now on bbc news, time, for a special look at india's future with india's millenials. india's millennial generation. over 65% of this vast country's population are under 35. they are tech—savvy, mobile, and better educated than their parents and their grandparents. in 2004, the bbc met a group of children in mumbai who encapsulate generation y. they came from a variety of backgrounds, but they all had one thing in common: their hopes and dreams. together: namaste. we've returned to see how life has changed for them. have their expectations been met, or have their lives taken them in directions they could never have dreamed of? spruha, gaurav and madhavi are watching the original bbc programme for the first time in over ten years. they went to school together, and are still good friends. namaste. .. i'm madhavi, and these are my friends. we live in mumbai... i'm madhavi, i'm 25 years old. i was filmed for the bbc programme which was on the lives of kids in mumbai, about ten years back. i live in a flat in mumbai with my sister, mother and father. when do you have yoga class today? two o'clock. i like doing art. when i grow up i will become a graphic designer. but first, i've got gujarati in school this morning. adult madhavi: i live in a different flat now, and i didn't grow up to be a graphic designer. i am a practising lawyer. in the past ten years, i have spent most of my time studying. i pursued my legal studies at government law college in mumbai for five years. i then pursued my masters at the university of oxford in england for a year. and now i'm currently a practising lawyer in a mid—sized law firm. it was my dad who actually pushed me to do law. for me, the choice was always economics or law. there was no question of her coming to my business. i think, after 12 she decided that she wants to go into the legal law field, and god has been kind. five years she has studied at the government law college, the oldest institution in mumbai, and luckily she got into oxford, so there was nothing to think about or anything. it was just to accept, and pay the fees. for graduation we were so proud, our daughter is graduating in oxford. so, it was a nice, sunny day. we went there in our indian attire. it's a proud moment for us. i don't want to ask you any questions... i think it's very boring! i think it's boring for everybody, i get very passionate, and i think it's boring for everybody else who's not a lawyer. the timings are horrible for you guys. yeah, it's a tough balancing task. i only get one day off a week, which is a sunday, but sometimes it also happens that i'm called into the office on a sunday, or i'm expected to work from home. she may be committed to her work, but madhavi's priority is her family. more than half of india's twentysomethings still live with their parents, as she does. the one thing that i have seen is that the family bond is one thing in india that has never changed, and i don't see it changing, and i don't even wish that it changes. though we have different lifestyles, we lead different lifestyles, we still come back to a family at home, and i think that is a very, very satisfying feeling. she is traditional in other ways, too. happy to let her parents help herfind a husband. now we have started seeing for her marriage proposals also. she hasn't found anyone in mumbai, neither in oxford. so we have to search for a decent boy. we hope that, luckily, she gets a very good family and the boy lets her pursue her career, also in life along with it. not all millennials in india are as fortunate as madhavi, and she knows it. the only difference that i notice in millennials in mumbai, and especially in india, is the social, cultural divide, the most important thing being the economic divide. hello, my name is sagar, i am 11 years old. i live with my family, that's where i live. when we first met sagar, he was living with his family under tarpaulin on the side of the street. sagar‘s parents sold garlic and scrap metals to get by. sagar was determined to make a better life for himself. my favourite cricketer is yuvraj singh, he plays forthe indian team. my goal is to be a doctor. as adult: i remember i was a little kid 12 years ago. we were living in the slums at that time. now, our government has rehabilitated us to mankhurd, on the outskirts of mumbai. mankhurd compound is a development of 65 buildings, created under the slum rehabilitation act. it's home to over 30,000 people. there is little sanitation and a limited water supply. but for sagar and his family, it's a step up. we have our own home, we have four sided walls, we are safe. but this place is where all the people from the slums are put together. so, all the people from different communities, different mentalities come together. in the last ten years, things have changed. i have changed. when i was a child, i wanted to be a doctor, and now i don't want to be a doctor any more. i want to work for the media field. i'm doing a bachelors in mass media, and i'm majoring in advertising. it's a huge industry, it's growing. it has a lot of scope. sagar lives in a single room with his mother and brother. growing up, sagar was helped by the akanksha foundation, an educational charity where he learned english and was supported in his studies. it's been a particularly hard journey for sagar. but he stayed on the path, and he's had huge struggles and hardships. i think a lot of them financial. many of them emotional. he is hugely determined, and has great grit and tenaciousness to his nature, which has obviously seen him through and brought him this far. hopefully, that'll see him much further in his life. we were 30—odd kids and only five of us have made it to college, and i'm one of the few. sagar has worked in call centres and fast food outlets to supplement the family's income, and pay for his student fees. i'm proud that i have still not given up. yes, there are days when i want to give up, or i don't want to study, or i don't want to do anything. ijust want to quit everything and start earning for myself, and live my life as i want. but that's not going to take me far in life. after college, sagar plans to do an internship at teach for india, an educational charity. he wants to work in the communications department, and then look for a job in advertising. what would you say are some of the bigger things you want to do once you join the comms team at teach for india? first, i want teach for india to be on everybody's page, everybody's facebook page, eve rybody's instagram. everybody should like it. we get more people who want to work with teach for india, show their support for us. and ultimately get the support from the government. so tell me a bit more about when you get your results now and what are you thinking about your internship. 215t of april is my last exam. after that i'm going to be free for two months, until my results come. i want to do an internship during that phrase, when i am waiting for my results, and gain as much knowledge as i can, and be with a team and learn how they work, and then apply for a job. 12 years ago, a short distance from the young sagar, a girl called shenaz also lived by the side of the road. she too was determined to forge a better life for herself. my name is shenaz, i'm 26 years old, and i'm married. i live in mumbai and i have two children, two beautiful children. the bbc filmed me when i was 1a years old. i went to dance classes. for our culture. shenaz was a teenager when the famous indian choreographer shiamak davar sent trainers into studios in mumbai to teach jazz, ballet and modern dance. she was earmarked as a student who showed great promise. i loved dancing, it was my career, i wanted to make a career in my dance. by the time she was 15, shenaz was taking the lead in shows. but shenaz decided she wanted something else out of life, and chose a different path. i stopped dancing, because i got married. and i couldn't go to the classes. shenaz left school when she got married. she wasjust 16. after i left my school, i never stopped studying. my husband helped me in my studies, he paid for my computer classes. shenaz and her husband have their own apartment, shared with their daughter, their son, her mother—in—law and her sister—in—law. it's a big thing in mumbai to have your own apartment, and it's a single room with a bathroom and a kitchen. it's very small, and we are happy in it. she is serious about providing her children with the best possible education, paying for after—school classes for her daughter. i want them to have a good education, because i have left school very early. so i want them to study and get good jobs, and be happy in their life. my daughter loves dancing, so she might fulfil my dreams. shenaz, like sagar, has come a long way in the past 12 years. her intelligence and optimism have helped her carve out a better life. with the help of her husband, she now has a permanent home and her own family. there's lots to do in mumbai. that's me! gaurav has spent a lot of time living away from mumbai in the past decade. today, he is reunited with his childhood friends, and enjoying watching his young self play tabla for the bbc. sometimes at lunch, i play tabla, an indian drum. so cute! i'm gaurav, i'm 2a years old. when i was eight years old, i started playing tabla. i used to go to tabla classes for the next six years. notjust a talented tabla player, gaurav was also a child actor. but during his last years of school, he decided to do something very different. basically i wanted to work for the society. there were only two options, becoming a proper surgeon or physician. that was one option, and dentistry was the other option. during my high grades, i was inclined towards biology and medicine. and during that time, i had braces on my teeth. so i used to be frequently visiting the dentist. the dental chair, the instruments and all that really fascinated me. a degree in dentistry followed. it took five years to qualify. when i became a qualified dental surgeon, it was, for me, of most importance to be a specialist. this doctor who runs a practice in mumbai has become his mentor. gaurav, first and foremost, has joined the very best field, in paediatric dentistry. he is a very compassionate human being. i would like him to get into the paediatric field, get into prevention, it get into the government and get more policies into place, where we can take this to the rural area. i want him to grow big, and take india with him. gaurav‘s plan is to open his own clinic in mumbai. he knows he's lucky to have the support of his family, he still lives at home. i have a good support from my parents, my grandparents. they always drive me forward, and that keeps me going. i did a bollywood sequence. dancing in the dancing studio. when she was growing up, spruha went to the same dance studio as shenaz. she would have liked to have been in a hindi movie. i'm spruha, i am 2a now. since i was last filmed by the bbc, i have since graduated school, i've graduated college. i've switched one job and i'm currently in my second job. i did my studies abroad. i did an undergraduate degree in business. i came back afterfinishing college, back to india. when i was growing up, i'd always see things happening around me, which was sort of an inspiration, aspiration, ambition, that one day i would have my own office space, i'd be running something of my own. and to do that, it's always best to come back and learn, and understand what's going on. another reason is my mum was missing me a lot! spruha's firstjob was as an analyst for a leading bank. then came the start—up boom in india, and she decided to seize an opportunity. mumbai was becoming a space for start—ups. graduates, even people who had retired, suddenly wanted to have their own ideas, and people were getting funded. everyone had their businesses, had fancy offices. and it sounded like the dream to live. they made it sound like you can have it if you want it. i currently work at refreshed car care. we are a doorstep car cleaning service. with refreshed car care, you can book over the phone or online. it started out as a small organisation, everyone does everything, from the top of ceo, all the way down to our cleaning staff. everyone has a responsibility to step in wherever needed. spruha works seven days a week, and sunday is usually her busiest day. despite the long hours, she loves working for the start—up. especially the excitement of not knowing what's going to happen next. you don't know what's happening tomorrow, but at the same time you're also thinking long term. so you're not doing what you're not doing, why is it not going? there's a constant push, there's a constant rush. when i do get time off work, i generally go for a run to de—stress, or i go to the gym, lift some weights. that's my way of de—stressing. you guys are moving your office, right? yes, yes. we have rented out a new space, way bigger than we have now. we got the wi—fi fitted yesterday, so we can start working from today. my generation is different from my parents. our generation is a lot more risk—taking. we know that we have heavy student loans to pay off, but that is not stopping us from taking jobs at start—ups or starting off on our own. i think that's the way we have evolved now. we want to do what we want to do, not something that we are told to do. spruha is different from her parents in another way, too. she has travelled much more than they ever did at the same age. every year i make a point to have a trip, have a travel plan, that motivates me to keep working and then take that time off. i think my generation is adding a lot to india's progress, by pushing new ideas to the world, creating different businesses, creating different opportunities. the lives of these five young millennials are a far cry from their childhood dreams. perhaps that's no surprise. but all of them have worked hard to get where they are today. some come from privileged backgrounds, have studied abroad and travelled the globe. but they've worked long hours to make the most of those opportunities. others have strived just to get a roof over theirfamilies‘ heads. their stories are also the story of modern india. the gulf between the rich and the poor, but also the possibilities the country can hold for those who are diligent and lucky. how will the next few decades pan out for these young people, and for many others like them? ten years down the line, maybe five years down the line, i see myself being settled, having a family of my own. but at the same time, i wish to pursue my career. ten years down the line, i feel i'll be the top most paediatric dentist in mumbai. hopefully! in ten years' time, i hope to have my own company, doing something fun out of mumbai. i don't want a lavish lifestyle, i just want a simple lifestyle, where i earn a lot of money but yet lead a simple life. there should be peace in life, there should be a lot of love and care, support, and that's it. that's all i want, that's not much. hello there. good morning. we saw some big contrasts across the uk on sunday, but the southern half of the uk has seen quite a bit of cloud and some rain. this is the view from one of our weather watchers midafternoon on sunday. but at the same time, the northern half of the country, it was pretty different day. dry, bright, a bit breezy as well. this is the view on the shores of the moray firth. and i think we're going to keep similar contrasts through bank holiday monday because you've got this area of low pressure parked across the south of the uk. that'll be a focus for some wetter weather. further north it should be essentially dry but quite breezy, but the breeze at least overnight helping to keep those temperatures up. the temperatures probably at their lowest in western scotland. but here is where we're going to see some of the highest temperatures as we get on into the afternoon. now, we mightjust see one or two early showers in northern england but they'll tend to fade away. generally speaking northern england northwards it's dry, bright and breezy, whereas the southern half of the uk, we've got a lot of cloud, some outbreaks of rain, some showers. they'll be heavy at times i suspect with the odd rumble of thunder. but equally a little bit of sunshine coming and going. not overly warm, though, only 11, 12, maybe 13 degrees. temperature contrast across northern england. north sea coast all areas, only ten or 11 degrees. but on the other side we'll get up to around 1a or 15 in carlisle. could hit 16, 17 in northern parts of northern ireland. only eight degrees in the eastern side of scotland with that breeze coming in from the north sea, but could go as high as 18 in the sunshine on the western side. through the evening, still got some of those showers, potentially heavy and thundery across that central swathe of england. they're working their way ever southwards, eventually clearing away. by dawn on tuesday i think most places will be dry. still a fair bit of low cloud coming into that eastern side of the uk. maybe some mist and fog for as well. but temperatures are holding up at seven, eight or nine degrees in major towns and cities. a little bit lower than that in some rural spots. now, through tuesday, as our low pressure system drifts away to the south, it allows a high pressure system in scandinavia to become the driving force of our weather. and that'll be with us for a good few days. an easterly wind on a tuesday drags it in a lot of low cloud to the eastern side. it will be quite cool here as well. further west much brighter skies and we'll see some higher temperatures as well, 15, 16, 17 degrees in a few places. maybe one or two spots of rain to go with that cloud further east. cloudy across the southern half of the uk on wednesday. still that easterly breeze and still quite cool along that eastern coast. head further west, particularly into the north and west and it should be a lovely day in some sunshine and the temperatures should be in the upper teens here. then towards the end of the week, a lot of fine and dry weather to be had. still a little bit cloudy up and down the eastern side, where it will be on the cool side. head 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