'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
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Paris (AFP) Mar 27, 2024
Households around the world threw away one billion meals every single day in 2022 in what the United Nations on Wednesday called a "global tragedy" of food waste. More than $1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry, the UN's latest Food Waste Index Report says. It said that more than 1 billion tonnes of fo