One billion meals wasted every day around the world, according to the UN. Households represented 60% of this waste, or 631 million tonnes worldwide in 2022.
Catering services (canteens, restaurants, etc.) accounted for 28% and supermarkets, butchers and grocery stores of all kinds for 12%. That's the equivalent of more than $1 trillion a year thrown away unnecessarily. “We could feed all the people who suffer from hunger in the world – there are around 800 million – with one meal a day, just with the food that is wasted,” says Richard Swannell.