Almost half of the world's food thrown away, report finds

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Figures from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers show as much as 2bn tonnes of food never makes it on to a plate

As much as half of all the food produced in the world - equivalent to two billion tonnes - ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday. The UK's Institution of Mechanical...

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