Africa: Humanity's Penchant to Waste Food Is Trashing the Planet

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Africa: Humanity's Penchant to Waste Food Is Trashing the Planet

Press Release - The next time you pour expired milk down the drain or throw away wilted vegetables, consider how this waste could have been avoided. A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) finds the world is in the grip of an epidemic of food wastage. In 2019, consumers tossed away nearly a billion tonnes of food or 17 per cent of all the fare they bought.

Source: allAfrica.com

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