Food Waste Facts: Trivia Quiz!

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Over 240 million slices of bread are chucked away every year. Bread freezes really well, particularly for toast, so make sure you pop in the freezer if you're not going to use it. Stale bread can be turned into croutons, breadcrumbs, eggy bread, or even bread & butter pudding.

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With over 7 billion people on this planet, 925 million are starving. We annually lose and waste 1,3 billion tons of food enough to feed 3 billion people.

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It should be kept between 35 and 38 degrees F (1.7 to 3.3 degrees C). Anything higher and foods will spoil too quickly. Anything lower and freezing starts to be a problem.

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It is equivalent to approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is lost or wasted annually. This has a cost of more than US$ 680 billion in industrialized countries and US$ 310 billion in developing countries.

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True the average person is throwing away 100kg of food per year.

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Major contributors to land occupation of food wastage are meat and milk, with 78 percent of the total surface, whereas their contribution to total food wastage is 11 percent.

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Food waste has a lot of bi-effects and there are a lot of resources that are collateral of food waste such as land, water, labour, energy, manufacturing, packaging, etc. The impact doesn't stop there either, when food waste goes to landfill, it creates methane, which is 23x more deadly than carbon dioxide as a result of decomposing without access to oxygen.

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Producing 150gr of burger requires almost 2'500lt of water. The majority of this goes to the beef as it requires irrigation of the feed and hydration of the cow.

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Since January 13th 2016 French supermarkets must donate unsold food to charity. Just a 15% increase in donated food will mean 10 million more meals per year. Since it came into force, the law has increased donations to food aid associations by 22%.

Supermarkets caught breaking these rules can be fined up to 75,000 euros or two years in prison. (https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2017/03/24/France-s-food-waste-ban-One-year-on)

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*False: it just indicates the time at which the quality and freshness of a product is at its peak but not the safety level of consumption. This means you can even eat yogurts after their best before dates!

Only 37% of people know the difference between ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates. Foods with ‘use by’ dates are highly perishable and must be eaten before the date written. Foods with ‘best before’ dates can be eaten after the date on the packaging, although it won’t be at its best quality.