Global Food Waste Crisis Highlighted on International Zero Waste Day

Global food waste crisis undermines climate and security, says UNEP official

ISLAMABAD: The world wastes food on a staggering scale, as every year over one billion tonnes of edible food — nearly one-fifth of all food available to consumers — is thrown away, impacting both people and the environment, undermining food security and climate resilience, and compromising progress towards a zero-waste, circular future. The ‘International Day of Zero Waste’ is being observed on Monday (today), focusing on “Food – what we eat, what we waste, and how we can move towards a more ...

By none@none.com (Amin Ahmed)