PS: we still need to finish the research about recycling in future ...

Remember, there is no just food waste related to foods that you 🗑, but even overeating is contributing to climate change! Not only you get fat, you get disease, you waste money, you get depressed due to your body, etc.

With overeating you contribute to climate change!

The waste of resources and the unnecessary ecological cost due to an excessive consumption of foods leading to obesity have been ignored so far. Metabolic Food Waste [MFW(kg of food)] corresponds to the amount of food leading to Excess Body Fat (EBF) and its impact on the environment, expressed as carbon [MFW(kgCO2eq)], water [MFW(×10 L) ] and land footprint [MFW(×10 m2 ) ].

In terms of ecological impact, EU and NAO displayed the highest values for all three MFW footprints (water, land, carbon), about 14 times more than SSA that, as for the MFW(tons of food), is the area with lowest ecological impact (Table 2). The water footprint for EU and NAO was similar but almost double with respect to LA and 10 times more with respect to the ones with lowest impact (SSA). In terms of GHG emissions, EU was in first place followed by NAO and LA, also here the footprint of EU was almost 10 times more than SSA.

Regarding land use, EU was the first followed by NAO and LA, with a land use of about 15 times higher than SSA.

Figure 2B shows total water footprint (as millions m3 ) from MFW in the seven regions: dairy products/milk/eggs and meat/offals as a whole contribute to more than 70% in EU and NAO.

Figure 2A shows the contribution of commodities to total GHG emissions by geographical area. Dairy products/milk/eggs and meat/offals have the highest values in EU and NAO, then alcohol.

Obesity is a social challenge that is rising in almost all countries with detrimental effects for human and planet health. In this work we showed that the overall impact of MFW(tons of food) associated with overweight and obesity in the world is 140.7 gigatons of food waste, with EU and NAO with the highest ecological impact for water, land and carbon footprints.

Since 79% of all plastics have ended up in the environment through land or water, these plastics will exist and continue to pollute the environment for hundreds of years as the decomposition rate of plastics is generally very slow. Simple plastic PET bottles, straws or even single used plastics take 450 years, 200 years and 20 years respectively to completely degrade in the environment!

The carbon footprint of plastic (LDPE or PET, polyethylene) is about 6 kg CO2e per kg [78] and about 85% recycling content in PET bottles can reduce the car- bon footprint by 74% (1.54 kg CO2e).

A significant proportion of packaging plastics (161 million tonnes) that we generate today is discarded after less than just 6 months!!!

Due to the increase of the amount of electrical and electronical equipment waste (e-waste), the understanding of individual consumers’ main decision triggers represents a key point in increasing the quantity of recycled e-waste.

So first, Switzerland and other countries START TO WASTE LESS THINGS!!!
https://xn--r1a.website/FoodWasteTelegram/143
https://xn--r1a.website/PollutionFacts/421
https://xn--r1a.website/SwitzerlandFacts/239
https://xn--r1a.website/PollutionFacts/1339

How? Buy less things! and reuse such things!
https://xn--r1a.website/ClimateToDo/68