Waste not want not - an old motto for an era of mass production

The Ecologist
Aug 18, 2017, 6:09 am85 pts
A third of food produced globally is wasted - with over 2 million tonnes of fresh fruit and veg each year never reaching a shop shelf in the UK. This level of waste is staggering, especially when we consider all the energy and resources that went into producing the food in the first place. ILANA TAUB is on a…

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