Supermarket Food Waste: The Global Farce by Matt Homewood
Channel: Matt Homewood
Date: 2021-11-19

Matt Homewood presents "It’s Garbage! How Supermarket Food Waste is Trashing the Climate." at COP26 in Glasgow, UK.

After discovering Copenhagen's shocking Supermarket Food Waste, Matt started "An Urban Harvester" in 2019. Here at the UNFCCC’s Action Hub stage he presents his journey, and goes on a global tour to see what other dumpster divers from across the world are finding in their local supermarket dumpsters! Matt goes onto review some of the exciting solutions that are at hand that could solve this most pressing issue.

Incredibly, society wastes at least 40% all of food produced every year. No wonder we've created all these social & environmental problems for ourselves!

Let's take a step back. Why does Food Waste even matter? 

Well, with at least 40% going to waste, this is a huge opportunity to rectify some of the following:

690 million people suffer from hunger.

3 billion folks can’t afford a healthy diet.

The food system uses 50% of Earth’s ice free land & is responsible for 80% of global deforestation.

1 million species are threatened with extinction.

It’s responsible for 10% global yearly CO2e emissions.

If Food Waste was a country, it would be the 3rd largest emitter!

Yet despite of all this, as of November 2021, ONLY 6% of Paris Agreement signatories have food waste plans in their national carbon plans.

We need to fix that ASAP.

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