According to the ‘Food Waste Index Report 2024’ released by the Nairobi based United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), households in Bangladesh waste 14.10 million tons of food annually.
An estimated 82kg of food is wasted by a person in a Bangladesh home per year, much higher than that in rich countries like the United States (73kg), Russia (33kg) and China (76kg).
Food waste has been worse than previously estimated as $1 trillion worth of food is wasted every year.
The food waste generates an estimated 8–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions (including from both loss and waste), and it takes up the equivalent of nearly 30% of the world’s agricultural land.
The 2024 research, co-authored with WRAP, offers the most precise worldwide assessment of food waste at the retail and consumer levels. It advises governments on how to improve data collecting and proposes best practices for transitioning from monitoring to decreasing food waste.
According to UN projections, homes across all continents wasted almost 1 billion meals each day in 2022, while 783 million people remained hungry and one-third of humankind experienced food insecurity.
The wasting of food is a worldwide catastrophe. Due to global food waste, millions of people will go hungry at present, according to UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.
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