In 2022, 1.05 billion tonnes of food were wasted on the planet. This represents a fifth of all food available for sale to consumers, not counting what is lost in the production chain.
According to the UN, households needlessly threw away the equivalent of a billion meals every day around the world in 2022. Figures show that almost as much is wasted in low-income countries as in high- income countries. The difference is only 7 kg of waste per person per year between rich and poor, explains Richard Swannel of the British NGO Wrap.