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Sep 8, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Let's talk about #foodwaste, and the incredible carbon-cutting benefits of addressing and preventing it. If we halved UK food waste & planted trees on the land saved, we'd save more emissions than produced by the whole of the UK agriculture sector. feedbackglobal.org/bad-energy-the… Halving food waste + reforestation on grassland spared could mean saving and offsetting the equivalent of 11% of the UK’s total emissions. The cropland spared would be enough to grow enough potatoes and peas to feed 28% of the UK population!