According to the 2021 Food Waste Index Report 35%-50% of food is wasted globally and 5% to 17% of it can be attributed to the food-service industry. Orbisk, a Netherlands-based tech start-up offers a solution through its waste tracking system.
Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, proposes in a piece published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature that world timekeeping is under threat as a result of global warming.