• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      No idea how its being calculated but if it takes into account food lost during transport, tons of food spoil during transport in Brazil due to the terrible infrastructure for goods.

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      1 month ago

      My own uneducated guess would be weather. But I’m sure it is something else.

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        I mean, China’s per capita waste is similar to that of the United States or Germany, so presumably they throw roughly as much shit away per person as the US - it’s just that, having four times The people, they naturally throw away four times The shit.