Essay Draft

Food Waste



We waste food every day with or without knowing it top of Strawberries, Brown Bits of bananas, uneaten food from our school lunches, half-eaten nectarines. While making dinners we through out the ends of spring onions, carrots and leaves of lettuce. We all like to go to sleep on a full stomach, so we make more than we need and all the leftover gets thrown out.

Humans waste a massive 1.3 billion tones of food a year. When you put that in a money perspective we waste $940 billion each year. That is an insane amount of money, more than enough to feed the whole world. Countries like Africa are starving and in New Zealand, we have nine sheep to one person then why are people starving all around us.

One in nine people does not have enough food to feed themselves that is 793 million people out of 7.8 billion people. Think about how lucky you are. There are small organizations all around the world trying to help decrease the ways we waste food. We need all the organizations to band together, share ideas and come up with an effective solution.

Almost half of all fruit and vegetables are wasted a year, which is 3.7 trillion apples. Wasting so many apples is unbelievable. Just imagine what 3.7 trillion apples would look like. If that is crazy. Then think about this ever time you throughout one burger it is the same as wasting as much water that a 90-minute shower wastes.

Eliminating global food waste would save 4.4 million tones of C02 entering our atmosphere and that is equivalent to taking one car in four cars of the road. It is amazing how you can do lots of small things to make a big difference in the world.

Overall my final opinion and statement is why can’t we just be better it’s all over the news
It’s everywhere and no will admit to how much we are wasting pretending to be good people while people all around us people are starving.