Tonnes of food are wasted around the globe every single day.
‘Surplus’ food in our kitchens, shops and restaurants or food
that is passing its expiry date on a given day is stuck in
dumpsters and then usually just deposited at landfils. According
to a new policy brief issued by the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), the Stockholm International Water Institute
and the International Water Management Institute, huge amounts
of food — close to half of all food produced worldwide — are
wasted after production. To widen the perspective, this also
means tonnes of water and other resources that were needed to
raise the food – wasted. There seems to be plenty of positive
debate about cutting back on eating meat and junk food for both
health and environmental reasons, but neither the media or the
society seems to be concerned with just how much of what we buy
we end up wasting. According to WRAP, 6.7 million tonnes of food
is thrown away by households in the UK every year, or, to put it
another way, around a t