{"id":657,"date":"2012-07-27T18:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ECCWORDPRESS\/2012\/07\/27\/10-tips-from-the-eu-commission-to-limit-food-waste\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:35:49","slug":"10-tips-from-the-eu-commission-to-limit-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/news\/10-tips-from-the-eu-commission-to-limit-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"10 tips from the EU Commission to limit  food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Food waste: some facts<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Food is wasted before, during or after meal preparation in the households and is discarded during production, manufacturing, distribution, retail and catering.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About\u00a0<strong>90 million tonnes of food is wasted annually<\/strong>\u00a0or 180 kg per capita per year in Europe, excluding agricultural food waste and fish discards.<\/li>\n<li>About a\u00a0<strong>third of the food for human consumption is wasted globally<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; around 1.3 billion tons per year, according to FAO;<\/li>\n<li>Food waste in\u00a0<strong>industrialized countries is as high as in developing countries<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>In developing countries, over 40% of food losses happen after harvest and during processing;<\/li>\n<li>In industrialised countries, over 40% occurs at retail and consumer level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sustainable food chain: why it matters<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Improving the sustainability of the food chain is essential in tackling climate change, resource scarcity and global food security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Food production and consumption generate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20-30% of all EU environmental impacts;<\/li>\n<li>17% of direct greenhouse gas emissions;<\/li>\n<li>28% of material resource use in the EU;<\/li>\n<li>Other environmental impacts related to energy use, land use, water use, biodiversity loss and waste production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/food\/food\/sustainability\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/food\/food\/sustainability\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/food\/food\/sustainability\/docs\/tips_stop_food_waste_en.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/food\/food\/sustainability\/docs\/tips_stop_food_waste_en.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food waste: some facts Food is wasted before, during or after meal preparation in the households and is discarded during production, manufacturing, distribution, retail and catering. About\u00a090 million tonnes of food is wasted annually\u00a0or 180 kg per capita per year in Europe, excluding agricultural food waste and fish discards. About a\u00a0third of the food for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}