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03/06/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Researchers: 9% of the world’s food supply is thrown away or left to spoil

Unemployment and rising food costs have resulted in about a billion people around the world going to bed hungry every day – that’s nearly one in seven people who is officially starving. This problem is only likely to worsen, since the global population is growing at an unprecedented rate, and the United Nations Department of […]

02/08/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

Zero waste: German supermarket sells only salvaged food

A new kind of supermarket opened in Cologne Germany this year. The supermarket, The Good Food, is different because they only sell salvaged food that would have been thrown away or left to rot. There are now three stores like this one in the European Union. The Good Food is unique because shoppers get to […]

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