Freeganism – a conscious choice or a necessary measure

1. Topic: Freeganism – a conscious choice or a necessary measure?

Pupil: Mitina Elizabeth
Form: 9

2. Number of hungry people in the world

3. The FAO's best guess is that one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted before it is eaten.

Food waste
33% of all food is wasted
$750bn cost of waste food
28% of farmland grows food that will be thrown away
6-10% of greenhouse gases come from waste food
39% of household food waste is fruit and vegetables
Source: UN/FAO

4. Freeganism is an anti-consumerist movement that takes issue with society's focus on buying new and throwing away old but still

Freeganism is an anticonsumerist movement
that takes issue with
society's focus on buying
new and throwing away
old but still useful items.

5. The word freegan is blend of two English words: free and vegan. Words made by combining two existing words to make new one are

known as portmanteau
words.

6. The result of my research

no
21%
yes
yes
79%
no

7.

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