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The enormous scale of global food waste. (cdn.statcdn.com)

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much is this percentage wise?

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NPR/USDA estimate that adults eat about 2000 pounds of food per year, so 94kg/2000 pounds = 10%. 73 kg/2000 pounds = 8%. Not bad, honestly, considering, for example, a banana peel is 12% of the banana.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago

So if they've shown percentage the numbers wouldn't really fit the agenda. Biased article is biased