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As much as a third of the world's food is wasted; UK retailer vows to take action
2013-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce food loss and waste. UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of all food produced annually worldwide, worth about $1 trillion, gets either lost or wasted. Converting this to calories, they say, it means one-quarter of all calories intended for human consumption are never eaten. Boxes of spoiled or blemished food, pulled...
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