Essays on Food Waste

Each year over 9 million people die of starvation. That’s more than the deaths of Aids and Malaria combined. These numbers may startle you and make you think what can I do to make a change, You can do a lot as a matter of...

Organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) can be defined differently by regionally and nationally. For the United States of America, OFMSW is defined as a mixture of food, garden waste and paper. While for the European Union the OFMSW is known as a mixture...

Australians, Americans, and British people produce more food than is needed by each country, yet strategies to manage food waste like upcycling residues and following systems that rely on circular economies and waste hierarchies, are not being utilised. The justifications for food waste vary, and...

Did you know that over one third of all food produced globally goes to waste? The annual value of food wasted globally is $1 trillion, it weighs about 1.3 billion tonnes. And All the world’s nearly one billion hungry people could be fed on less...

In the near future there may be a food security crisis. The United States Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO for short, claims that in 2016, roughly 11% of the world’s population went undernourished. In 30 years it is estimated that there will be over...

The food taboo is a prohibition against consuming certain foods. The word “taboo” is Greek word means forbidden or abstinence, which has quasi-magical or religious overtone. It was introduced in the anthropological term literature in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Within the field...

Food waste is a massive and financially pulling issue for the world, costing us around $680 billion a year . In France this problem was very prominent as the country was producing around 88 billion tonnes per year. With information from a new report done...