The enormous scale of global food waste.
The enormous scale of global food waste.
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Would be really interesting to look at foodwaste as a percentage of food consumption. Anyone know whether that kind of data is available anywhere?
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Anyone have any ideas why Brazil's per capita is so high?
And Russia's so low?
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No idea how its being calculated but if it takes into account food lost during transport, tons of food spoil during transport in Brazil due to the terrible infrastructure for goods.
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This is household food waste and the study also inclues retail and food services.
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My own uneducated guess would be weather. But I'm sure it is something else.
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That makes sense. Brazil's number is close to its peers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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And how is China so high? Do they just throw shit away all the time?
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Fascinating to note, despite all the inefficiencies in capitalist food distribution and how horrifying entire dumpsters full of stale bread or "spoiled" vegetables are, roughly 60% of all food waste occurs at the household level, that is, because of the decisions of individual consumers on how they handle their own food at home.
The next time someone tries to argue "individual consumption doesn't matter" I'll have to cite this chart.
"individual consumption doesn't matter" is green "your vote doesn't matter"
I'd argue individual consumption is often more impactful than your vote. You can't gerrymander a dollar.
Not that I am disagreeing individual waste is a big part of it, I am not convinced this chart adequately demonstrates that. Is the per capita from the chart after they remove non-individual waste from the total? If not then the per capita includes things like commercial or industrial waste and it’s not really reflecting an individual waste perspective.
The chart measures household food waste. So yes. That is explicitly what it did.