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giteam OP t1_jdvfs7m wrote

Reply to [OC] What went wrong at Credit Suisse by giteam

The Swiss bank's decline didn't start this year - since 2019 it has been rocked with scandals and bad investments that has brought the share price down by over 90%. Here are some of the biggest ones, culminating in UBS putting it out of its misery earlier this month.

Source: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse

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giteam OP t1_jagus1e wrote

Reply to comment by Jester_Thomas_ in [OC] Food waste around the world (kg/capita/year) by giteam

Just posted a comment regarding the data, which comes from the UNEP Food Waste Index Report, we simply visualised it in a map.

With regards to infrastructure, the report does mention that the authors encountered a lot more hostility and resistance when attempting to conduct waste audits of food service and retail companies. Considering that food waste is a commercially sensitive topic (and these companies looooove money) it makes sense that they don't want to give accurate numbers. Your suggestion is plausible but we probably won't know for sure unless these food service companies give us accurate numbers.

Plus, the report also suggests that there is such a wide scope for the definition of "food service establishments" - imagine the difference in wastage between sports stadia (beers being thrown after a goal is scored) and a hot dog stand down the road!

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giteam OP t1_jagu07t wrote

Reply to [OC] Food waste around the world (kg/capita/year) by giteam

In this report, food waste is defined as "both the edible and inedible (bones, rind, pits/stones) substances that are used in the manufacture, preparation, or treatment of food".

One significant limitation mentioned in the report is that not every country has high-quality data on food wastage, especially those in lower-income countries. Some of these numbers could therefore be quite different from actual food waste numbers. However, the main aim of the report was to shed light on food waste as a whole, to hopefully provide a framework for countries with lower-quality data to adopt in order to track food waste more accurately in the future.

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Source (data can be found in Database, while full written report can be found in Full Report)

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