Roughly 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown out annually. That is the equivalent to the amount of food that 37 million people eat in their entire lifetime. The water, energy and land used to grow, process and transport this wasted food is staggering. What is more, virtually all wasted food ends up in landfills where it decomposes, giving off vast amounts of methane emissions and significantly contributing to climate change. Perhaps the saddest consequence of food waste is that, according to the FAO, 795 million people remain chronically undernourished.
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