Plastics | General Assembly of the United Nations Up to 12 million tonnes of plastics are being swept into the oceans annually and gyres, or so-called ‘islands of plastic’, are blossoming quickly making their way into the global food
Food Waste Statistics in Canada for 2025 | Made in CA The impact of annual avoidable household food waste in Canada is equal to 2 1 million cars and 9 8 million tonnes of CO2 according to Love Food Hate Waste Around 4 82 million tonnes of food, worth nearly $21 billion, is lost or wasted during the processing and manufacturing of food The total value of wasted or lost food in Canada is $49 billion
Plastic pollution marine litter | UNEP - UN Environment . . . (UNEP) The volume of plastics in the ocean has been estimated to be around 75-199 million tonnes (UNEP) Approximately 7,000 million of the estimated 9,200 million tonnes of cumulative plastic production between 1950 and 2017 became plastic waste (UNEP) Resources Pollution to Solution report GPML Digital Platform Contactunep-gpmarinelitter@un org
Food Waste Index Report 2024. Think Eat Save: Tracking . . . Out of the total food wasted in 2022, households were responsible for 631 million tonnes equivalent to 60 percent, the food service sector for 290 and the retail sector for 131 Reducing food waste provides compounding benefits: Food loss and waste generates 8-10 per cent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – almost five times the total
Meat consumption, health, and the environment - ResearchGate The economics of meat production (A) The value of livestock (globally and by region) as a proportion of total agricultural value in 2014 T otal consumption of meat (in million metric tons
Role of animal products in feeding the planet - Springer the growth in global population, during the latest 20 years the overall food production has increased considerable more than the growth in population to ensure a better food supply and this trend is expected to be maintained (UNEP, 2011) Further, the consumption of meat has increased considerable more than the population growth