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Food Waste facts

by Arushi Madan | 01-05-2013 03:38 recommendations 0

Food waste is a major issue today.

The impact of food waste is not just financial. Environmentally, food waste leads to wasteful use of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides more fuel used for transportation and more rotting food, creating more methane – one of the most harmful greenhouse gases that contributes to climate change. Methane is 23 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.  The vast amount of food going to landfills makes a significant contribution to global warming. For food to compost properly ,  it needs light and air. In the landfill it has neither. Instead, food devoid of light and air  produces methane gas , which contributes to global warming.

  • Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. Food loss and waste also amount to a major squandering of resources, including water, land, energy, labour and capital and needlessly produce greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to global warming and climate change.

  • The Department of Agriculture estimated in 1996 that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people. Today we recover less than 2.5 percent.

    Every region , area , state , country should have food recovery centres which collect uneaten/excess food quickly enough to distribute to less priviledged. All of us should think 2wice before deciding the qty to buy from groceries/supermarkets. We should not be tempted by bundle offers or lucrative offers(3 at a price of 2 )etc. Take and serve small portions of food. Don't hesitate to use leftover the next day. We can adopt few simple tips in our day to day life to prevent food wastage at our end.

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    7 Comments

    • Asmita Gaire says :
      Hello arushi
      I hope you are doing well
      Food waste is also responsible for producing unwanted green house emissions
      Thank you so much for this wonderful report.
      Keep writing!
      Regards
      Asmita Gaire
      Posted 16-05-2020 11:24

    • Rohan Kapur says :
      Reduce food wastage, remove hunger.
      Posted 15-06-2013 20:10

    • Arushi Madan says :
      Thanks Osama , Simran
      Posted 05-05-2013 13:08

    • says :
      approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted! Its huge! Thanks for sharing with us.
      Posted 02-05-2013 17:36

    Eco Generation

    • says :
      Very true and yet there aree miilions around the world starving to get one meal a day
      Posted 01-05-2013 19:38

    • Simran Vedvyas says :
      So Important and so much with this year theme of UNEP.
      Great Report - share everywhere
      Posted 01-05-2013 03:59

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