WHAT IS FOOD WASTE?A TYPE OF FOOD LOSS
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Food Waste and Food Loss
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How we end up with wasteFrom planting to to transport to packaging your food has to go a long way, stopping at a lot of different points before reaching your plate. As we speak, millions of tonnes of food is being discarded at each of these unique points.
To learn more about these points and how they work, click the button below. You'll be taken to "Follow the Apple", an interactive video trip. There, you'll get to experience the interactive journey of a piece of produce that gets wasted as so many do. Who knows, maybe this is the exact path taken by that pear you threw away! |
AROUND THE GLOBE
95-115 billionKilograms of food wasted annually in Europe and North America alone
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9.6-9.8 billionOur approximate global population by 2050 as predicted by the UN
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ON MULTIPLE LEVELS |
Food waste happens in more than one way
It is created by individual people like you and me, as well as by larger groups, such as schools, stores that sell food, and restaurants |
50 percent
How much more food households in America waste now than they did in 1990, which adds up to about
35 million tonnes
35 million tonnes
But WHY CARE?
This is all just trash, right?
If you think so, click this link to be taken to the FAQs page, and find out just what makes food waste so important
If you think so, click this link to be taken to the FAQs page, and find out just what makes food waste so important
Need navigation help? Click 'menu' in the top left corner for a roadmap. Then after, exploring the website a little bit more, feel free to click this link to go to the survey page to find out exactly what food waste means for you!