A reported 1,260 billion meals are
thrown away in a year worldwide, including 4.26 billion in
Italy, the Waste Watcher Observatory said Sunday on the fifth
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.
The observatory in particular registered a rise in waste among
Italian families this year.
It calculated the average weight of meals as 500g estimated by
the Food Waste Index Report 2024 of the UN Environment
Programme, and considered the average increase of the Italian
population in food poverty which had reached 6 million (10% of
the population), according to figures provided by ISTAT and
Catholic charity Caritas, estimating that approximately 4.2
million meals were wasted in Italy.
The meals could have fed nearly 4 million people, the
observatory said.
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