Taking Action to Prevent Food Waste and Combat Climate Change

https://sealedair.com/blog/taking-action-prevent-food-waste-and-combat-climate-change October 14, 2016 Tonight, nearly 795 million people around the world will go to bed hungry. And, that number could climb even higher in the next few decades. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates the world will have to increase our food supply by 70 percent to meet the demands of a …

The Shocking Cost of Food Waste

https://sealedair.com/blog/shocking-cost-food-waste This world wastes an astonishing amount of food. About one third of all the food that is produced is wasted. A 2011, United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report estimated in 2007, 1.6 billion tons of food was wasted. As a comparison, 6 billion tons of food was produced globally that year. The …