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Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities

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image"Ugly" food campaigns will not solve food wastage. Flickr/Brett Forsyth, CC BY

At a time when one billion people globally experience hunger, as much as 50% of all food produced - up to two billion metric tonnes - is thrown away every year. In Australia alone, as much as 44 million tonnes of food is wasted annually.

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