People wasting almost 1bn tonnes of food a year, UN report reveals

 

I’ve read an article about how people around the world waste food. UN report informed that people waste almost a bilion tonnes of food a year. The interesting fact is that „the food discarded in homes alone was 74 kg per person on average around the world”. Just in UK, which has quite good data, the edible waste was about 8 meals per household each week.

For me those numbers sounds really frightening. As everybody know many countries have to struggle with issues like poverty, some countries doesn’t even have access to running water or other necessities.  As a society that have never felt any effects of that types of problems, we don’t really care. We buy a lot of food with short expiration date and than when the product is expired, we just throw it. The solution is quite simple : buy less, but more often. So I think that if everybody followed this rule, the number of food that is wasted would be smaller.


www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/04/people-wasting-almost-billion-tonnes-food-year-un-report?fbclid=IwAR1q7EkCGgqbSYpmzJzwis3zAHi091XGZ-dGVqbGoCtefJ2aSPER4b3iC4k

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  1. englishdiary10 marca 2021 00:23

    Believe it or not, we used to be much more careful food users in the past, when food was hard to get and there was less to choose from. Also, the low prices to help people to appreciate food as a product.

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