FOOD waste has become a massive issue around the world, particularly after Christmas.

Australia’s festivities are that great over the festive period that they tend to go on holidays and leave food in fridges which then gets out dated and thrown in the bin.

It generates a lot of waste for the country and it also sometimes makes the country look a lot messier if the waste is not disposed properly.

It’s not just a food problem in Australia.

While most of it will be ingested, more than a third of food in Europe and the United States will grow moldy fur in the back of the fridge, pass its use-by date and land in garbage.

 In the United Kingdom, according to a leading European magazine, the UK, one of Europe’s worst food waste offenders, around 6.7 million tons of purchased and edible food, worth £10.2 billion (11.2 billion euros, $16.6 billion), are annually discarded.

Around 4.1 million tons of this wasted food comes directly from food manufacturers.

Then comes the smell.

“In Europe we consume so much globalized food, like kiwis from New Zealand and pineapples from Australia – all of which has to be transported over thousands of kilometers to get here,” Harjula told Deutche Well.

Then you think of the countries like Sudan and in and around Africa that are poor and needing food. Indonesia, so close to Australia, has thousands of starving people.

There hasn’t been a bigger gap in world society yet than now.