The "manufactur, preparation and treatment of food" really sticks out to me. For example, if an American buys a fruit cup that was packaged in Bangladesh, then the skins, seeds, rotten fruit that couldn't be packaged, etc. all gets counted as food waste in Bangladesh, right? It seems like the data would be skewed against the less developed countries which increasingly produce processed foods for first world countries.
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The "manufactur, preparation and treatment of food" really sticks out to me. For example, if an American buys a fruit cup that was packaged in Bangladesh, then the skins, seeds, rotten fruit that couldn't be packaged, etc. all gets counted as food waste in Bangladesh, right? It seems like the data would be skewed against the less developed countries which increasingly produce processed foods for first world countries.