0.3 → 300 000 tonnes co2e about 0.3 tonnes of co2e and about 74 kilograms of food a year. a third of all food is wasted. if food waste were a country it would be the third emitter.
method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (UNEP Food Waste Index 2021; FAO 2013), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.
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