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Food Waste June 6 was the date of the World Environmental Day (WED) of 2013. The main focuses of this day for 2013 were the various problems in relation with food waste. Food waste is almost inevitable unless you can eat all the peelings of every fruit you eat, including those with poison. However, if this is so, why do various organizations such as UNEP and environmental NGOs make campaigns to reduce the food waste made? This is because we are making unnecessary food waste. We are making more than the minimum. For example, in 2007, in the United Kingdom alone, 6,700,000tonnes of food waste has been made. This infers that each household produces 3.2kilograms of food waste per week. If we make a few assumptions that half of the 3.2 kilograms are inevitable food waste such as the sprouts of potatoes of the seeds of an apple, we still have 1.6 kg to save. In one year, we can save 3,350,000 tonnes of food waste. In the example above, saving that amount of food waste can bring quite a few advantages to a country. First of all, economically, saving 137,000 tonnes (in ?Love Food, Hate Waste? campaign launched in the United Kingdom) saves 300 million pounds. If we save 3,350,000 tonnes?I?ll leave the math to you. It also implies that we can use that amount of money in other places and circulate the currency. If money is circulated in an economy, it will be economically stronger. It will also be better socially. It might be an obvious thing but the staunch from food waste might be fatal to infants or weak people. Near our apartment, there were children who couldn?t stand the smell of it and ended up deciding to move away. Thanks (?) to them, our neighborhood made a more organized and ?smell-blocking? recycling bin for food waste. |
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18 Comments
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 26-08-2013 15:26
it is awesome report :)
Posted 28-06-2013 16:45
nice report
Posted 26-06-2013 00:00
Thanks for the report.
Posted 17-06-2013 21:35
Even I agree, we should take only what we can eat.
Thanks for sharing Hyuck!
Posted 16-06-2013 16:38
Thanks for sharing!
Posted 15-06-2013 19:15
Hyuck, Thanks for enlightening
Posted 15-06-2013 16:05
Addressing this issue is Important - Well Reported
Posted 15-06-2013 00:33
Very Inflammatory Report.
Posted 14-06-2013 18:44
Indeed..we need to reduce the amount of food waste. Our school is currently undergoing a massive program aimed at reducing food waste :))
Posted 14-06-2013 14:42
It's really sad that we can't save food left like money or gold and can't help but throwing them away...
Posted 14-06-2013 10:05
Thanks for sharing facts and figures .
Posted 14-06-2013 03:30
Thanks for sharing!
Posted 14-06-2013 02:47
thank you for the report....! )
Posted 14-06-2013 01:26
Food waste should be treated as crime when we think of so many hungry people in this world at amy given moment...thx for sharing this report
Posted 14-06-2013 00:47
isn't June 5 rather than June 6, the World Environment day?
Posted 13-06-2013 23:53
thank you for sharing this, I organized an event related to this, in this world environment day and i can say food waste is a crime in a world where so many people die of hunger.
Posted 13-06-2013 23:04
thats a huge number......thanks for sharing this Hyuck. the food is not reaching to the needy ones and most of us are wasting us....and we call ourselves people respecting humanity..quite ironical
Posted 13-06-2013 22:25