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Nearly half of the world's food ends up as waste, report finds

2013-01-10 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: As much as half of all the food produced in the world equivalent to 2bn tonnes ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday. The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with "poor engineering and agricultural practices", inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities....

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