Essays on Food Waste And Its Impact

Food waste or food loss is food material that is discarded or unable to be used. Various political organizations and entities have their own definition of what constitutes food waste. The causes of wasted food are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, and retailing. As of 2011, 1.3 billion tons of food, about one third of the global food production, is lost or wasted annually. Loss and wastage occurs on all steps in the food supply chain.…...

FOOD WASTE Fresh vegetables, ready-to-cook meals, and cheap meat is what a modern consumer’s supposed grocery list comprises of! Dump it all into your fridge full of deals, discount offers and feel happy. This is how the shop keeper gets a loyal customer. At the end o the story, it’s the food industry’s creed that the customer is always right….. If food became it s own pungent country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climatic changes. According…...

! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department, in Hong Kong, solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones, of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where, revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency, only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes, otherwise nuisance to the environment will be caused.…...

40% of the food America produces is wasted.1 Have you ever thought of how much food you waste a day? The average American wastes about 250 pounds of food every year.2 That’s about $600 dollars worth of food.3 Imagine what you could do with $600.00. No one notices what is in the back of their fridge or what goes into their trash can. Before you say that you don’t do that, think back to a moment when you had the…...

In the world we live in today with talking fridges, moving robots and 20-hour commercial flights we still use harmful products and don’t realize the dent we are putting in the world. As simple tasks become even easier to do and the environment is struggling to modify the world we live in today. If continue this disgusting way of living life dis-producing massive amounts of trash our once ever so lonely earth will be filled up with rubbish, do you…...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption in the world is going to landfill (2013), which makes up for a total of about 1.3 billion tons of wastage annually. In Singapore alone, humans are wasting more than 140 kg of food per person per year. Singapore imports around 90% of all its food and wastes 30% of it (Accor Hotels, 2018). Ministry of the environment and Waster Resource claims that Singapore generated…...

At a time when the world is apprehensive about food security and the looming dark days when humanity will run out of food, millions of tons of food are wasted because of our poor habits of consumerism. In industrialized nations especially, retailers and consumers discard around 300 million tons that is fit for consumption. Ironically, one in every seven people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of 5 die daily from…...

Food waste is a problem that has been around for many years of our life cycle but sooner or later it's going to catch up with us. Food waste is defined by the leftovers or waste that is left by us because it gets can get worse when we don't use it or when we don't have a place for it because of how much we have been overgrowing for quite some time. When food waste occurs in our environment,…...

Introduction I live in a country that is seen as one of the "best countries" to live in, Norway. Usually, countries that are qualified for those lists have broad access to food and housing, quality education and health care, good job security, political stability, individual freedom, and environmental quality. Although we often can't find major humanitarian, social problems like poverty, lack of education, or even street animal problems in Norway. I want to address this project to a more climatic…...

Food waste is a thriving global crisis that is leading the physical health of the earth and the population populating the whole planet. Children in the United States live in homes that cannot reach enough food. Food waste is a serious environmental concern facing the whole region. Modern countries throw away food either because of rejection or of household wastes. On the other hand, developing countries lose their food because they do not have the supplies and resources for improving…...

Abstract Food waste is a global-scale phenomenon, Food waste generated in India is huge and waste segregation methods are still inadequate and is a growing issue. With less than 55% of waste collected and less than 17% processed (Arian, 2018). Moreover, landfills are held for being the largest GHG emitters. This topic has gained popularity & momentum in recent years. This paper proposes the problems and challenges faced during the waste segregation process, decomposition of waste with different technologies, and…...