Hi.
Some of the dot points in the below source are stark and quite significant. In Australia, one in five bags of groceries are wasted, the food production from land the equivalent area of Victoria is wasted.
I wonder if the cost of fuel & fertiliser increasing the cost of food will result in changing behaviour for consumers. I suspect not, they will just whinge about the increased cost of living and not look to see what habits they can change in their own household.
We are far from perfect, and throw out food on a weekly basis. If food really was in short supply I suspect people would eat most of what they have available to them. I personally don't like when meat and meat products are wasted, I believe that we should enjoy our meat, but also respect where it comes from. Consumers are far from the source of their food and I suspect have no appreciation of how it gets onto their plate.
I wonder how much fuel could be saved by not transporting the $33.6b of wasted food, and how much electricity could be saved by not refrigerating the perishable portion of wasted food?
I know that we can never achieve 100% of consumption matching supply, but if the information is correct, 1/3rd of world food being wasted seems quite a lot.
I suspect it is a similar story for fiber production.
From here: https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/food-waste
Cheers.
Some of the dot points in the below source are stark and quite significant. In Australia, one in five bags of groceries are wasted, the food production from land the equivalent area of Victoria is wasted.
I wonder if the cost of fuel & fertiliser increasing the cost of food will result in changing behaviour for consumers. I suspect not, they will just whinge about the increased cost of living and not look to see what habits they can change in their own household.
We are far from perfect, and throw out food on a weekly basis. If food really was in short supply I suspect people would eat most of what they have available to them. I personally don't like when meat and meat products are wasted, I believe that we should enjoy our meat, but also respect where it comes from. Consumers are far from the source of their food and I suspect have no appreciation of how it gets onto their plate.
I wonder how much fuel could be saved by not transporting the $33.6b of wasted food, and how much electricity could be saved by not refrigerating the perishable portion of wasted food?
I know that we can never achieve 100% of consumption matching supply, but if the information is correct, 1/3rd of world food being wasted seems quite a lot.
I suspect it is a similar story for fiber production.
From here: https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/food-waste
- One third of the world's food is wasted.
- 25% of water used in agriculture is used to grow food that is ultimately wasted – throwing away one burger wastes the same amount of water as a 90 minute shower.
- Food waste produces eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If food waste was a country it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind the USA and China.
- Food waste costs the economy around $36.6 billion each year.
- Each year we waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food across the supply and consumption chain – this wastage equals about 312kg per person, equivalent to around one in five bags of groceries or $2,000 to $2,500 per household per year.
- Food waste accounts for approximately 3% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
- Australia uses around 2600 gigalitres of water to grow food that is wasted – this equates to the volume of water in five Sydney Harbours.
- The amount of land used to grow wasted food covers in excess of 25 million hectares, a landmass larger than the state of Victoria.
Cheers.