You’re only looking at retail and you’re discarding what I’ve said about household food waste.
Globally, the majority of food waste, around 61%, occurs in households
From Wikipedia: “Food loss and waste is food that is discarded or otherwise lost uneaten. This occurs throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about one-third of the world’s food is thrown away, and a similar proportion of calories is lost on top of that by feeding human-edible food to farm animals. A 2021 meta-analysis by the United Nations Environment Programme estimated that global food waste amounted to 931 million tonnes annually (about 121 kg per person) across three sectors: 61 percent from households, 26 percent from food service and 13 percent from retail.”.
Utilizing household food waste is a matter of getting uneaten food to people who would eat it. It’s incredibly difficult, this is the challenge that I referred to as logistics.
You’re only looking at retail and you’re discarding what I’ve said about household food waste.
Globally, the majority of food waste, around 61%, occurs in households
From Wikipedia: “Food loss and waste is food that is discarded or otherwise lost uneaten. This occurs throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about one-third of the world’s food is thrown away, and a similar proportion of calories is lost on top of that by feeding human-edible food to farm animals. A 2021 meta-analysis by the United Nations Environment Programme estimated that global food waste amounted to 931 million tonnes annually (about 121 kg per person) across three sectors: 61 percent from households, 26 percent from food service and 13 percent from retail.”.
More sources https://www.usda.gov/about-food/food-safety/food-loss-and-waste/food-waste-faqs#%3A~%3Atext=In+the+United+States%2C+food%2Cfar-reaching+impacts+on+society:
And
https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=43836&v=0 check the summary PDF
Utilizing household food waste is a matter of getting uneaten food to people who would eat it. It’s incredibly difficult, this is the challenge that I referred to as logistics.