No one can question that we have a global problem with food and beverage waste. The numbers show the scale of how much food and money is wasted annually. According to The World Counts website, roughly one third, or about 1.3 billion tons, of the world’s food is wasted. But more than that ends up in landfills.
The F&B industry, along with many others, generates a huge amount of waste through packaging. The World Bank projects that global municipal waste will increase to 3.4 billion metric tons, and there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. How can the world and the F&B industry confront the fact that packaging waste is generating both cost and pollution?
Read the entire piece here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/louisbiscotti/2022/12/20/recycling-and-reuse-ways-to-win-the-war-on-waste/?sh=33b0710a6e2e
