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    Title
    Waste
    Subtitle
    Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Tristram Stuart
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 480
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 26 mm
    Weight: 524 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    College/higher education
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780141036342
    ISBN 10: 0141036346
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: BUS070010
    BICMainSubject: KNDF
    Dewey: 338.19
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T8.8
    BIC subject category: RNH
    BISAC category code: NAT011000
    Illustrations note
    16 pp b/w
    Publisher
    Penguin Books Ltd
    Imprint name
    Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication date
    02 July 2009
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution, 'a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas' (Daily Telegraph), was published in 2006. He lives in the UK.
    Review quote
    Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.--John Preston
    Back cover copy
    Shocking Facts from Tristram Stuart's Waste: Around half all food in the US is wasted, while 35 million people live in households that do not have reliable access to food. The US has more than 4 times the amount of food required by the nutritional needs of the population. Just half of the food currently being thrown away in the US could provide the world's nearly one billion malnourished people with enough food.If trees were planted on all of the land currently being used to grow unnecessary surplus and wasted food, they could offset between 50 to 100 percent of the world's man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The Amazon rainforest is currently being destroyed to make room for grazing and soy production to supply the world's growing demand for meat. The land required to produce just the meat and dairy products wasted each year by U.S. and UK households, retailers and foodservices is seven times the amount of land deforested in Brazil. In South Korea, 98 percent of food waste is recycled-being composted or fed to livestock. The exact mirror image prevails in the US where only 2.6 percent of municipal food waste is recycled.
    Main description
    In a timely work, Stuart examines the true cost of what the global food industry throws away.