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In one year a billion tons of food got wasted — mostly at home gulfbusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gulfbusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Of the 121kg of consumer-level food thrown away each year for every person on the planet, more than half (74kg) is disposed of by households. Photo: AFP Seventeen per cent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019 – almost one billion tonnes – were thrown away by households, retailers, institutions and the hospitality industry, far more than previously suspected, the United Nations said recently. The scale of the problem is just huge, Richard Swannell, development director of the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a non-profit that co-authored a special report, told AFP. This is costly environmentally, socially and economically. If all the wasted food were packed into 40-tonne container trucks parked end-to-end, they would circle the Earth seven times, he said. ....
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People Globally Waste 1 Billion Tons of Food Every Year: UN Report Researchers say that one third of all the world’s food is thrown away. Why Global Citizens Should Care Food waste is not only a barrier to achieving the United Nations’ Global Goal 2, which is aimed at ending global hunger, it is also having a massive impact on efforts to mitigate climate change (Goal 13) and ensure responsible production and consumption (Goal 12). Join the movement to end extreme poverty and its systemic causes, and take action on these issues here. A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that people globally waste 1 billion tons of food a year. ....