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Food Loss and Waste Quiz Part 3

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. _______ percent of consumers have thrown away food based on the date on the package.

a)

Eighty-five

b)

Twenty-five

c)

Fifty

2.

2. _______ "one-third rule", used by the food industry, dictates that food should be delivered to retailers in the first one- third term left on the package label's date.

a)

England's

b)

Japan's

c)

Wale's

3.

3. The 88 million tons of edible food that is thrown away in the European Union (EU) each year is enough to feed _______ million people.

a)

3

b)

100

c)

200

4.

4. Globally, _______ of all women, children, and men are currently starving.

a)

one-third

b)

one-twentieth

c)

one-ninth

5.

5. The Boston-based software company, _______, has developed a program to help farmers and manufacturers find excess food to purchase.

a)

Spoiler Alert

b)

Eat Me!

c)

Refresh Foods

6.

6. One way for the U.S. Congress to decrease the country's food waste is to issue farmers _______.

a)

grants

b)

tax credits

c)

citations

7.

7. Increasingly, governments are limiting the amount of food waste that can be disposed of in _______.

a)

oceans

b)

incinerators

c)

landfills

8.

8. _______ is currently the leader of the United Kingdom in food-waste reduction and recycling rates.

a)

Wales

b)

England

c)

Scotland

9.

9. The developing country of _______ is building silos to store food items to keep them safe from pests and environmental damage.

a)

Haiti

b)

Kenya

c)

Guatemala

10.

10. Singapore is using _______ to alert the public about the dangers of food waste, but a recent survey found that 52% would most likely continue to avoid buying "ugly food."

a)

telephone messages

b)

texting

c)

social media