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Food Waste and the Environment

on October 23, 2017

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Internal Operations

Internal Operations are another factors. STORAGE/INVENTORY Harvest losses have several causes, including bad timing and poor conditions during the harvest as well as inadequate techniques and equipment. Similarly, lack of good infrastructure for transportation, storage, cooling, and marketing cause food to spoil, especially in hot climates, and one major front for action in the effort to reduce food wastage is developing better food harvest, 17 Bulacan Ecumenical School Liang, City of Malolos, Bulacan A.Y. 2017-2018 storage, processing, transport, and retailing processes (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2017). According to Lee (2015), the type of wrapping that is used on products also helps ensure a longer shelf life. An example would be the improved rice-storage bags in the Philippines which has helped cut losses of that staple grain by 15 percent as stated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2017). Moreover, ...

Food Waste

When food is thrown, consumed or not, people couldn’t care less. Without second thoughts, we put our environment, our economy, and the state of food quantity at risk. Food waste is one of the problems the world is facing today and it seems invisible to everyone’s eye. Food waste is said to be the component of food loss that occurs when an edible item goes unconsumed (Ellison, 2016). Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption- approximately 1.3 billion tonnes- get lost or wasted each year. According to Tuppen (2014), if food waste was a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest emitter of CO2. Experts have started addressing the problem in food waste due to its increasing amount and the complications it has brought. As stated by Kline (2017a), food waste is a result of someone's intentional choice, such as expired food or food that is cooked but not eaten, food discarded by retailers due to undesirable color or blemishes, and plate w...

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