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Bookmark or Share- 7 innovative solutions for fighting food wasteAs the chart above shows, breaking down the total waste figure, households discard an estimated 569 million tonnes, with the global food service sector wasting 244 million tonnes and food retailers responsible for around 118 million tonnes.
- Global food waste twice the size of previous estimates | World Economic ...Around 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year. 61% comes from households, 26% from food service and 13% from retail. Reducing waste could have social, economic and environmental benefits. The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to halve food waste by 2030.
- South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95%In the country’s capital, Seoul, 6,000 automated bins equipped with scales and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) weigh food waste as it is deposited and charge residents using an ID card. The pay-as-you-recycle machines have reduced food waste in the city by 47,000 tonnes in six years, according to city officials.
- Food waste 101: The facts and solutions | World Economic ForumFood waste turned into livestock feed benefits farmers by reducing feed costs and disposal costs. Food waste particularly from production is nutritious, like dried and wet extracted residue from the beer-making process at breweries, corn gluten from wet milling manufacturing of corn starch or syrup, or dried and wet grains from distillery ...
- 7 ways to reduce food waste and tackle world hungerThe UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has put out a list of simple yet effective ways we can all reduce food waste. From buying ‘ugly’ fruit and vegetables to rearranging your fridge. Most people at some time have bought too much food during weekly shopping and been left with rotting vegetables at the bottom of the fridge.
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