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of the amount of waste im spag/ange from 7 million to 23
million tons a year: the low gnd of that forecast is equivalent to 30 percent of
the countrys domestic production, a stunning number in light of the oft-cited
goal of obtaining “food security” The high md_--which comes from the Ministry
of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries一is worth almost \11 trillion and is the
monetary eduivalent of Japan's annual agricultural output.、 Experts reckon it
costs another \2 trilion to dispose of that waste. Tokyo alone produces about
6.000 tons of food waste a day, an amount sufficient to feed 4.5 million people
a day In total some 40 percent of all food in Japan ends up jn the garbage.
And this occurs when 750.000 people in Japan lack food security and 60 percent
of food is imported into the country Short sell-by dates for prepared foods
often just several hours long at convenience stores--also Tesults in tremendous
waste of perfectly good food.
双 Obyiously we need to pay more attention to shopping and eating habits.
It is not uncommon for shoppers in the developed world to throw SWay as much
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