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  2. Food loss and waste - Wikipedia

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    Food recovered by food waste critic Robin Greenfield in Madison, Wisconsin, from two days of recovery from dumpsters [1]. The causes of food going uneaten are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption.

  3. Recycling rates by country - Wikipedia

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    Recycling rates by country 2019 Country % recycling % composting % incineration with energy recovery % incineration without energy recovery % other recovery % landfill % other disposal Australia: 24.6 19.8 0.6 0 9.5 55 0 Austria: 26.5 32.6 38.9 0 0 2.1 0 Belgium: 34.1 20.6 42.3 0.5 1.6 0 0 Costa Rica: 3 3.8 0 0 0 86.5 6.7 Czech Republic: 22.8 11.7

  4. Waste by country - Wikipedia

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    Waste is shipped between countries for disposal and this can create problems in the target country. Electronic waste is commonly shipped to developing countries for recycling, reuse or disposal. The Basel Convention is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement to prevent problematic waste disposal in countries that have weaker environmental ...

  5. List of countries by food energy intake - Wikipedia

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    Food consumption is the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by Our World in Data. However, the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depends on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, for example during storage, in preparation and cooking, as plate-waste ...

  6. Global Food Security Index - Wikipedia

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    The Global Food Security Index consists of a set of indices from 113 countries. It measures food security across most of the countries of the world. [ 1 ] It was first published in 2012, and is managed and updated annually by The Economist 's intelligence unit.

  7. Sustainable food system - Wikipedia

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    However, high income countries food systems still may deal with other issues such as food security. This demonstrates how all food systems have their weaknesses and strengths. Climate change causes food waste to increase because the warm temperature causes crops to dry faster and creates a higher risk for fires. Food waste can occur any time ...

  8. List of countries by food self-sufficiency rate - Wikipedia

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    Countries with highest caloric self-sufficiency ratio in 2010 [1] Rank Country Ratio (%) 1 Argentina: 273 2 Uruguay: 232 3 Australia: 207 4 Ukraine: 193 5 New Zealand: 185 6 Canada: 183 7 Bulgaria: 171 8 Hungary: 162 9 Lithuania: 149 10 Malaysia: 145

  9. Food rescue - Wikipedia

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    Food rescued from being thrown away. Food rescue, also called food recovery, food salvage or surplus food redistribution, is the practice of gleaning edible food that would otherwise go to waste from places such as farms, produce markets, grocery stores, restaurants, or dining facilities and distributing it to local emergency food programs.