Sentences with phrase «associated with food waste»
As poorer countries develop and the world's population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 gigatonnes annually by mid-century, showed the study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.
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As school nutrition professionals you're already familiar with the issues and costs associated with food waste, and SNF's latest partnership with the Environmental Research &... Continue reading →
As school nutrition professionals you're already familiar with the issues and costs associated with food waste, and SNF's latest partnership with the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) offers a way for you to be part of the solution.
Not exact matches
In 2012, the estimated amount of food waste in the EU was 88 million tonnes (including both edible food and inedible parts associated with food).
«higher quality diets were associated with greater food waste but less waste of cropland; as well as greater waste of irrigation water and pesticides, but not fertilizer.»
Why It Matters: Future materials that will decrease energy consumption and waste associated with manufacturing, detect harmful contaminants in foods and medicines, and enable the ultimate miniaturization of complex electronic devices will be composed of clusters containing different numbers and types of atoms.
Even if you're not turned off by the fact that it's an industrial waste product spun by marketers into a so - called «health food,» you can't like the numerous health - risks associated with soy.
However, high quality diets were associated with increased food waste and were found to use up more water and pesticides.
In fact, if researchers are to be believed, uneaten food accounts for more waste water than we use for washing and drinking combined!Fiona Harvey over at The Guardian writes about a new report from the UK government's Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP) which outlines the water and carbon impacts associated with waste food.
The team then calculated the estimated GHG emissions associated with the three different types of foods from «cradle to gate», which are primarily due to the farm's diesel fuel and fertilizer use, and found that the meat and protein category «represents the largest embodiment of GHG emissions» in both pre - and post-consumer food waste, despite ranking being the smallest category by total weight.