Food Waste: How Can You Help Tackle the Global Epidemic?

Food waste is a real problem across the globe. In 2013, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization produced a report which estimated that around a third of all food produced globally is lost or goes to waste. That’s a whopping 1.3 billion tonnes or, to put it in financial terms, it’s like scraping US$750 billion from our collective plate and into the bin, every single year.

The ethical issues surrounding food wastage, however, are of a much greater relevance than the financial impact. The World Food Programme estimated in 2015 that just under 800 million people globally don’t have …read more