food waste

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Globally, 1.05 billion tonnes of food waste generated (including inedible parts) in 2022 which was almost one-fifth of all food available to consumers, and each person, on average, wasted 79 kg of food annually in households in the world compared to 55 kg per capita per year in India, said the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Food Waste Index Report 2024 released on Wednesday. The report…

[ad_1] As data collection has improved the true scale of the problem has become much clearer, said Clementine O’Connor from UNEP. “The more food waste you look for, the more that you find,” she told AFP. Billion meals binned The report said that the “billion meals” figure was a “very conservative estimate” and “the real amount could be much higher”. “For me, it’s just staggering,” Richard Swannell from WRAP…