Waste Reduction Week is a Canada wide event that focuses on sustainability, a circular-economy, and waste reduction (1). This year it occurred from October 15th to 21st. You may have noticed posters around your dining halls or the board displaying the amount of food waste in Howe.
Food waste is a major concern across the globe and here in Canada. In Canada, it’s hard to believe that 40% of all our food is never consumed and goes to waste, that’s $31 billion or 6 million tons of food(2). All that food goes to a landfill or gets composted. Decomposing organic matter in landfills, like wasted food, produces methane gas. Methane gas is 25 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide (3).
Food waste is a very real problem all over the world. Nearly a third of food produced globally is lost and never nourishes someone (1,2). This loss of food is unsustainable and happens at home, in restaurants, in hotels, and in our dining halls.
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