Why Do We Waste Food. Believe it or not one reason for high amounts of food waste is due to affection. All we need to know are a few tricks and we can make food waste disappear.
The last one that Ill. Why do you think people waste foodwhat can be done to reduce the amount of food they throw away. Producing this wasted food uses 36 million hectares of land 180 gigalitres of water and generates 1 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
And that we waste 25 of our fresh water making food.
With more food being wasted landfills continue to inch higher and higher attracting wildlife of all sorts and putting delicate ecosystems out of balance. Food is wasted along the entire supply chain Farming Food Waste. Indeed few are aware that food is the biggest single contributor to landfill and a huge generator of greenhouse gases such as methane. They buy or cook too much or they do not eat the food they have in time.
