Nairobi, 6 June 2013 - As World Environment Day (WED) celebrations took place throughout this week in the imposing Sukhbaatar Square in the capital of host country Mongolia, famous landmarks on the other side of the world have also embraced the 2013 theme, 'Think.Eat.Save Reduce Your Foodprint'.
A new video being screened to hundreds of thousands of tourists and passers-by in Times Square, New York, and Piccadily Circus in London, highlights the need to reduce the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year.
Around one third of all food produced ends up spoiling in the bins of consumers, retailers, farmers and transporters. Worth around US$1 trillion, this wasted or lost food is enough to feed the 870 million people who go hungry each day several times over.
The new video is a joint venture between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC) and the Benetton Group in support of the 'Think.Eat.Save -Reduce Your Foodprint' campaign - led by UNEP, FAO, and other partners.
The film will also be screened in the windows of ten Benetton megastores around the world, including Moscow, Milan, New Delhi, Barcelona and Almaty.
'Pieces of Food': Click Here to Watch
UNEP also unveiled three other videos on the theme of food waste and food loss for World Environment Day. They include Breakthrough, which pokes fun at unnecessary, everyday food wastage, such as leaving the heel or crusts of a loaf of bread uneaten. It highlights the simple actions consumers can take to reduce the amount of food wasted in their own households.
Breakthrough: Click Here to Watch
Engagement: Click Here to Watch
Waste presents compelling facts and figures of the environmental, economic and social implications of food loss and waste. It is available in 8 languages.
