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May 11, 2011 | 5:03 pm

What a waste: UN reports that one third of the world’s food becomes garbage

(Image: Alfred Ng)

We already knew we probably waste way more food than we should, but we didn’t know it was this bad. As the BBC reports, a recently released United Nations study has found that one billion tons of food is discarded across the globe every year, prompting food retailers to re-evaluate their practices. After the jump, five things we learned from the study.

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