NPR/USDA estimate that adults eat about 2000 pounds of food per year, so 94kg/2000 pounds = 10%. 73 kg/2000 pounds = 8%. Not bad, honestly, considering, for example, a banana peel is 12% of the banana.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So if they've shown percentage the numbers wouldn't really fit the agenda. Biased article is biased

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Multiply anything by a billion people and it's going to be a big number - food waste, plastic grocery bags, paper napkins. It can be a way to encourage people to think about their own contribution to environmental problems, but it often ends up distracting people into making a big deal of, and demanding personal lifestyle changes over, something that's actually a small contributor to the real problem.