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"Mr President, I left home at 5.30 this morning and arrived in here at 7.30 this evening, and this is the story for many MEPs. That is not very resource efficient, and that is something we need to tackle in the broader sense.
At least we are trying to tackle the food waste, which is similar. The figures, which have been mentioned, actually are staggering: 88 million tonnes of food are wasted each year at a cost of EUR 143 billion; the food that is produced globally but not eaten uses a volume water equivalent to the annual flow of the Volga River in Russia and adds 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the planet’s atmosphere. At time we are talking about meeting the two degree target, this is something we really have to tackle and thankfully we are beginning to do so. Also, of course, we have signed up to the UN sustainable development goals, and that is about halving the per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level.
I was glad to hear the Commissioner mention the necessity for a reliable method to measure food waste, and this is something I welcome the report. Also the ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates. I am beginning to wonder: is there a need for a best before date? Maybe the simple thing would be to abolish it. Food is either safe or it is not, the ‘use by’ date would be proper and that would help to end the confusion. This is a major topic and I look forward for further development in the future."@en1
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