My first Publication Final Food Magazine | Page 11

MARCH 2019 | 11
Today's Wastage is
Tomorrow's
Shortage
Believe it or not, food wastage also has an impact
on the Environment. Once again, wasting food is
nothing but wasting the resources used to
produce it.
Food collected through the garbage and city waste
is generally sent into the dumping yard for
disposal. It is here where it gets rotten
and greenhouse gas, METHANE is produced. This
gas is nearly 30 times more dangerous than the
effect caused by Carbon Dioxide on the
Environment.
If a Ton of food waste is disposed, it produces
nearly 0.9 ton of Carbon Dioxide. It indirectly
means that if we save a ton of food from wastage
we reduce the emissions by one ton. It’s a win-
win case.
The resources used to produce food are also
wasted when food is wasted. The minerals, soil,
the effort, the power, fertilizers, water etc are all
wasted causing unnecessary burden on the
Environment.
These are some of the impacts that food wastage
has on the Environment. 
SOME SHOCKING
STATISTICS
About One-third of the total food produced in the
world gets wasted in one way or the other.
In India, at least 10 million tons of food is being
wasted per year.
Out of the whole wastage, the weddings
contribute about 60 percent in the wastage.