More than $1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry, the UN's latest Food Waste Index Report says.
A volunteer of the NGO GEMA Malaysia collects unsold food and drinks from a street market before distributing to people in need in the Kampung Baru neighbourhood of Kuala Lumpur during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, on March 18, 2024.PARIS, France — Households around the world threw away one billion meals every single day in 2022 in what the United Nations on Wednesday called a "global tragedy" of food waste.
"Food waste is a global tragedy. Millions will go hungry today as food is wasted across the world," Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said in a statement.Food waste produces five times the planet-heating emissions of the aviation sector, and requires huge tracts of land be converted for growing crops that are never eaten.
He said bringing together producers and retailers had helped reduce waste and get food to those who need it, and more such action was needed. A lot of food, particularly in the developing world, was not so frivolously wasted, but instead lost in transportation or spoiling because of a lack of refrigeration, the report said.
"If we can reduce food waste across the entire of the supply chain, we can... minimize the need to have land set aside that's growing stuff that's never used," Swannell said. But people rarely think about it, he said, despite the opportunity to "reduce our carbon footprint, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and save money, simply by making better use of the food that we're already buying".
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