Seventeen per cent of the food available to consumers worldwide in 2019 – almost one billion tonnes – were thrown away by households, retailers, institutions and the hospitality industry, far more than previously suspected, the United Nations said recently.
"The scale of the problem is just huge," Richard Swannell, development director of the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a non-profit that co-authored a special report, told AFP.
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