![]() ![]() This book is part of the Orca Thinks series. Highly Recommended.”- School Library Connection “Ideas presented offer an exciting potential source for research and personal activism…A highly readable book with a topic that hits close to many homes. “A thorough, upbeat look at the problem of food waste proposing some individual responses.”- Kirkus Reviews With inspiring profiles of food-waste activists and tasty tidbits on things like best-before dates, Good Food, Bad Waste offers much food for thought. Plus, by reducing food waste, we can also fight climate change! You can be part of the solution, starting in your own home-and working together, we can decrease our overall waste and make sure all people have food security. The good news is that many governments, communities and individuals are working hard to tackle this giant problem. A lot of what we don't eat ends up rotting in landfills which contributes to global warming. I should eat it before it goes bad.A deep dive into why humans waste so much food and the consequences for people and the planetĪround the world, a billion tons of food gets thrown away every year, even when hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger. On the personal level, there’s still a Honeycrisp apple in our fruit basket. One approach is by streamlined communications methods for connecting food that is in danger of being wasted with likely purchasers, such as Full Harvest’s business-to-business app. Dismayingly, though, it does make even the vaguest recommendations about how this goal could be achieved. At the same time food waste is a global problem. Which include, in the number one spot, fruits and vegetables.Īt the very least, the report suggests that preventing food wastage will be a constant and increasingly pressing goal for the produce industry. Preventing food waste should be prioritised, and any unavoidable food. ![]() Reducing food waste is therefore an effective climate action. It is estimated that food waste generates about 8 to 10 of global greenhouse gas emissions. Food waste is also a significant contributor to climate change. Furthermore, the greatest environmental benefits can be achieved by preventing wastage at the consumption level, and by focusing on the foods that account for the most wastage. Globally, more than 25 of food produced is wasted. It indicates that this loss is best achieved by waste reduction rather than recycling. The study points toward a goal of halving food wastage. About 40 percent of household food waste consists of fruits and vegetables. Households do a little better: only 70 percent of wastage there is edible. Ninety percent of the food wasted in the supply chain is edible. a far greater number than estimated by USDA to be food insecure.”īetween 70 and 90 percent of this wastage consists of edible food. is sufficient to feed 154 million people for a year. The amount of surplus food from retailers and consumers. Studies indicate that even if every American was provided with enough calories to meet their current level of physical activity and body weight, a surplus of 1,050 to 1,400 calories daily per person would remain. However, this food insecurity is not driven by scarcity. “In 2019, more than 35 million Americans were food insecure. There is a great deal more if somebody has to pick it, pack it, ship it, and stock it in a store. There is a certain amount of wastage if you disk a head of lettuce in the field. ![]() Loss here has the greatest environmental impact because this is cumulative the further you go down the supply chain. Roughly half of this wastage occurs at the consumption stage (foodservice and household). “Fruits and vegetables are the most commonly wasted foods, followed by dairy and eggs,” the report points out.įLW (food loss and waste: you cannot write a government report without lots of acronyms) accounts for an area of farmland the size of California and New York State combined. Such is the verdict of a report from the Environmental Protection Agency entitled From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. That amounts to somewhere between 492 and 1,032 pounds per person annually (estimates vary widely). In the US, we’re making great strides in building awareness on how much food is wasted. ![]() What percentage of food is wasted in the U.S.? My family is part of the food wastage problem. I open the kitchen garbage can, look down, and see a half-rotted Honeycrisp apple. ![]()
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