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Food waste or food loss is food that is discarded or lost uneaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, retailing and consumption.
Current estimates put global food loss and waste between one-third and one-half of all food produced. Loss and wastage occurs at all stages of the food supply chain or value chain. In low-income countries, most loss occurs during production, while in developed countries much food – about per person per year – is wasted at the consumption stage.
Usage examples of "food waste".
There was food waste, mostly seeds and apple cores, scattered around the courtyard.
She poured used coffee grounds and food waste on top of them, folded the top of the bag, and dropped it into a trash can at a bus stop.
Excessive Water Use, Excessive Energy Use and Food Waste will be Grounds for Desirability Review.
The theater was full of rubbish, a compost of rotting food waste and rubble and smashed pottery and even what looked like the bloated corpse of a donkey, all littered by the dead leaves of autumn.
We went on, following a trail of spilled refuse, ducked under a low doorway and into a bin layered with putrefying food waste.