Richard Swannell, director of impact growth at the UK-based NGO Waste and Resources Action Programme, says you would need an area the size of China to grow all the food we waste.Over a billion meals went to waste a day in 2022, UN food waste report says
It says about 19 per cent of food available to consumers was lost overall at the retail, food services and household levels. Another 13 per cent of food was lost in the supply chain, between post-harvest and up to and excluding retail.The report found that each person, on average, wastes about 79 kilograms of food annually, which is the average in Canada as well. The UN says that's the equivalent of 1.3 meals every day for every person in the world impacted by hunger.
If food waste was a country, he said, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. He says countries have done this through campaigns designed to change people's behaviour about food waste, such as WRAP's own When Swannell works with businesses, he encourages them to track their waste, because it shows how much money can be saved simply by making the best use of the food they have.
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