The malady of food waste: Millions starve as trash bins fill with leftovers

MANILA, Philippines—The scene is all too familiar among families. Children who won’t finish their meal get admonished: “Eat your food, many are starving, don’t waste it.”

It is repeated many times over and illustrates the recognition among many Filipino families about the folly of wasting food.

But food wastage happens and it does even as tens of thousands of people go hungry especially amid COVID lockdowns that kept breadwinners away from their daily sources of income.

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