While on the topic of waste, here’s a teaser. Food waste is a climate issue. That is one of the conclusions from the book ‘Waste: uncovering a global food scandal’. Written by Tristam Stuart who spent years eating from bins of supermarkets, the book traces the waste trail from farmers to supermarkets and restaurants to consumers.
The average UK household bins throw £8 of food each week while supermarket profligacy is yet another story. Much of the food is rejected right at the market level and not for nutrition/hygiene but for trivial reasons of colour and size!
Is food waste the big unspoken environmental crisis of our times? Stuart thinks so when he places it right up next to deforestation, water scarcity, even global warming. In Europe, about 20% of the greenhouse emissions come from processing and producing food.
The amount of processed food consumed today is increasing, even in developing nations. And for processing, energy and water is further consumed. Is it morally right to waste food?
For more listen in to http://www.downtoearth.org.in/tristram_stuart.asp
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