• Consumers should also try to purchase food according to their eating plan to avoid wasting edible food.
• If the food remains unfit for human consumption, it can be used to feed livestock, saving valuable resources that would otherwise be used to produce commercial feed.
• If food cannot be reused at all, then it should be composted or, at least, recycled. The average home can divert approximately 330 pounds of food waste per year from local waste disposal facilities by incorporating home composting into their daily practices.
CONCLUSION
Food may be cheaper when you buy in bulk, but in reality, you’re not really saving money when all you do is throw it in the trash at the end of the week.
The longer the food is wasted in the food chain, the greater the impact on the environment because we also have to consider the energy and natural resources expended in processing, transporting, storing and cooking the food.
More efforts must be made to develop better processes for harvesting, storing, processing and distributing food. If there is an oversupply, steps should be taken to redistribute food or divert it to people in need. Although the UN says that food production must be increased by more than half to meet the demands of a growing population by 2050, the actual increase will be much smaller if food waste is reduced.
SOURCES
•https://environment-indonesia.com/penyebab-food-waste-dan-dampaknya/
