{"id":472147,"date":"2025-10-03T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/472147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:21:16","slug":"greece-among-top-food-wasters-in-europe-eu-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/472147\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece among top food wasters in Europe, EU data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/food_waste_shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"Greece among top food wasters in Europe, EU data shows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/food_waste_shutterstock-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Shutterstock]<\/p>\n<p>Greece ranks among the EU\u2019s highest food wasters, with an estimated 200 kg of food wasted per person each year, according to EU data.<\/p>\n<p>Europe wastes around 58 million tons of food annually, with households accounting for half of that and the remainder from the broader food supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Only Cyprus (300 kg per person) and Denmark (250 kg per person) report higher per capita food waste, well above the EU average of 131 kg per person.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Hungary and Bulgaria each waste less than 100 kg per person annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Shutterstock] Greece ranks among the EU\u2019s highest food wasters, with an estimated 200 kg of food wasted per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[728,2000,299,5187,1491,12,4678,3839,3695],"class_list":{"0":"post-472147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-in-depth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-society","15":"tag-survey","16":"tag-sustainability"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115312570465207273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}