我们一起来了解。When it comes to preserving food and reducing its waste， America is not the country paving the path， as $165 billion worth of food is being thrown out annually. The United States per capita food waste has increased almost 50 percent since 1974.Multiple factors come into ...
When looking at the data on a country-by-country basis, the highest absolute figures for food waste were recorded in the two countries with populations of more than a billion people. China wastes an estimated 108.7 million tonnes of food per year while India discards 78.1 million tonnes. The...
Published for the first time in 2021, the UNEP Food Waste Index Report seeks to track country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3. "The quantities of edible food that are wasted are staggering," the report says. "As more co...
Overall, on a per-capita basis, much more food is wasted in the industrialized world than in developing countries. We estimate that the per capita food waste by consumers in Europe and North-America is 95-115 kg/year, while this figure in sub-Saharan Africa and South/Southeast Asia is ...
This research investigates the long鈥恟un determinants of per capita food waste, using a monthly time series dataset collected from the Taipei City Food Scraps Recycling Program, covering a span of 19 years. In addition, this research introduces a new proxy for the food wastage rate, gauged by...
The attitudes, preferences and awareness about food waste in developing countries are different to those in the western countries. Saudi Arabia is a developing country with a high income per capita. The cultural attitudes are different and are very personal. Customs and traditions in Saudi Arabia ...
One possible explanation could be that [23] conducted this study in Lhasa, Western China (also a developing country), compared to the other two studies i.e., [3,34] which reported data from developed countries. Figure 1. Scatter plot of average waste (g) per customer per day vs. the ...
Since the inaugural 2021 edition of the report, the gap between high-income, upper-middle income and lower-middle income countries has narrowed. The report revealed that the average levels of household food waste now differ by just seven kilograms per capita per year. There is, however, an ur...
Uur municipal solid waste generation per capita has increasedby almost twice as muchsince the 1960s. A third of the food at retail and consumer levels ends up as waste, of which more than 55% is sent to landfills, while the rest finds other food management pathways such as combustion...
In combination with the projected world population of nine billion by 2050, further malnourishment of both humans and animals may occur; therefore, understanding of the current status of food waste and reuse is important. Methods An extensive literature review was conducted to quantify food waste by...