1/3 of world’s food ends up as trash – UN report

AT least 1.3 billion tons of food produced globally is being wasted every year, which resulted to around $750 billion of the world’s economic loss and a significant damage to the environment, a United Nations (UN) food agency reported on Wednesday.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in its report entitled Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources, said that one-third of the food waste goes in the garbage each year.