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How food waste is damaging humanity and the world!.
The world has enough food produced to feed everyone. Around 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted damaging the global economy.
Around $940 Billion of the global economy is spent because of food waste, the average family of four throws away around $1500 worth of food each year which also costs more for the economy because more food stock for businesses equaling more waste. Could you imagine what we could do with $940 Billion? The money spent because of food waste could have gone towards a more sustainable and more biodiverse world so there can still be a future.
It is not only the economy that food waste is damaging it affects the environment just as much.
Food when it is lost or wasted and goes to landfill it affects the environment resources including water, land, energy and labor which causes carbon dioxide. The disposal of food loss and waste in landfills leads towards greenhouse gasses emissions that are contributing to climate change and produces methane which increases global warming. Food rotting in landfill releases methane 28 times stronger than carbon dioxide. Throwing away one burger wastes the same amount of water as a 90 minute shower, climate change is humanity's worst enemy. If people reduced the amount of household food waste we would have a better future by reducing the effects from climate change. Climate change might not kill us but for many on earth starvation will!.
If one quarter of the food currently lost or wasted could be saved it would be enough to feed 870 million starving people. Each day 25,000 more than 10,000 children die from hunger and related causes 854 million people worldwide are estimated to be undernourished and one in nine people do not have enough food to eat, that's 793 million people who are undernourished. If food waste was a country it would be the 3rd biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses after the USA and China. Food waste causes so many environmental problems. If we still want a future we need to act fast.
It is certain all the food produced but wasted would be sufficient to feed two billion people, that's more than two times the amount of undernourished people across the world. Us as humans should try to cut global food waste in half by 2030. Ways you can help is buy less groceries, grow your own produce, freeze for later and use leftovers. Let's make sure we have a future!
Resources.
https://www.ecogaurians.com.au
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