Pope Francis recently highlighted our "throwaway culture" where "food that is thrown away might as well have been stolen from the table of the poor, the hungry." WRIInsights gives a number of statistics on how bad the waste actually is: The world produces about 4 billion tons of food per year, or about 6 quadrillion calories. That’s a large amount, but what’s really shocking is that nearly one-quarter of these calories go uneaten. |