Up to Half of World's Food Goes to Waste

The statistic has been repeated so often, it might have lost its potency: up to half of the food the world produces is thrown out, rather than eaten. But wasteful consumers in wealthy nations are not the only culprits. Poor countries, too, are tossing out perfectly good food, sometimes at the same scale, according to Elliot Woolley, lecturer in sustainable manufacturing at Loughborough University in Britain. What’s notable, though, is that developed and developing countries have...

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