How much food do you throw away? Chris discusses with Jen the problems of global food and water waste in this week's 6 Minute English.
This week's question:
How much food is wasted every year around the world? Is it:
a) 5,000 tonnes
b) 1 million tonnes
c) 1.3 billion tonnes
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
Listen
Global waste
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Vocabulary
- expired
come to the end of the acceptable time to eat
- edible
eatable
- blemish
mark, fault
- nutritious
healthy, beneficial
- imperfections
defects, faults
- reliance
dependence
- inefficient
badly organised, wasteful
- rot
decay
- take their toll
have a bad effect on
- food for thought
provide motivation for thinking about something
