What impacts can food wastage lead to?
Present impacts:
1. Loss of money from the wastage of food. It costs around $1 billion every year just to dispose of all its food waste.
2. Food wastage also leads to a wastage of resources, that are used in food production, distribution and disposal.
Future impacts:
1. When food decomposes, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more damaging than carbon dioxide.
- Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere resulting in: the melting of mountain glaciers on every continent, reductions in the extent of snow cover, earlier blooming of plants in spring, a shorter ice season on lakes and rivers, ocean heat content, reduced arctic sea ice, and rising sea levels.
2. Not enough food to meet the growing demands
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