THROW PERFECT
WILL
READ
NOURISH
HIGH
DEVELOP
ENVIRONMENT

SIT
AMOUNT
LABEL
EASTHETE
STARVE
RETAIL
WEAR
EXPECT

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
In the 0. developed world, we all spend money on things we never use:
fitness equipment that 1. in the garage gathering dust, clothes that never
get 2., books that are left 3.. But the thing we waste
most of all – 4. edible, nutritious food.
In fact, it is estimated that up two billon tonnes of edible food is 5.
away every year. That’s half of the world’s food. The Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) says that it 6. take US $30 billion to feed the 870
million people around the world who are chronically 7. - yet the
value of the food thrown away every year 8. to US $100 billion.
There is something grotesque in the thought that global 9. could
be avoided, if only we didn’t put so much food in the bin. And then there’s the
10. damage caused by all that food production – according to the
FAO, food waste produces 3.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, and is the third
11. emitter in China and the US.
Why all the waste? One reason is our consumer 12.: 20 to 40 per
cent of fruit and vegetables are rejected BEFORE they get into a supermarket – left to
rot in fields, or thrown away – because they don’t meet 13. standards
of the ‘cosmetically-perfect’ food that consumers expect. Food 14. is
another problem: overzealous sell-by and use-by dates encourage both
15. and consumers to ditch god food.

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