Nearly 60 Pct Of Food Produced In Canada Wasted: Report
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published January 18, 2019 | 07:09 PM
Some 58 percent of all food annually produced in Canada is lost or wasted, a food rescue organization revealed on Thursday
According to a report published by Toronto-based Second Harvest, some 35.5 million tons have been lost or wasted out of the 61.2 million tons of food produced in a year in the country.
The report -- titled the Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste -- showed that 32 percent, or some 11.2 million tons of wasted food could be avoided annually via redirecting the edible food to support the needy communities across Canada.
The highest rate of food waste took place during the processing and manufacturing phase, which left some 4.82 million tons of food out of the supply chain, which was equal to nearly 21 billion Canadian Dollars ($15.
8 billion), it said.
Meanwhile, 2.38 million tons of food -- amounting to some 10.37 billion Canadian dollars ($7.8 billion) -- have been wasted at the consumer (retail, hotels, restaurants and institutions) level.
Based on the consumer value of food, the value of avoidable lost and wasted food equated to 49.5 billion Canadian dollars (around $37.3 billion), which represents 51.8 percent of money Canadians spent on food purchased from retail stores on a yearly basis.
The study also noted that the value of this potentially rescuable lost and wasted food could be enough to feed every Canadian for five months.
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