Q 01/05

UNEP's Food Waste Index ranks households first for wasted food; which sector comes second?

A) Food service

B) Retail

C) Farming

D) Food processing

Answer · why

A) Food service

Food service comes second, and when COVID-19 shut restaurants and schools in 2020, farms that supplied them destroyed millions of pounds of food they ...

Q 02/05

UNEP estimates that food loss and waste cause roughly what proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions?

A) About 1%

B) About 3%

C) About 10%

D) About 30%

Answer · why

C) About 10%

About 10%: part of that comes from landfills, where food decays quickly and gives off methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Q 03/05

Food banks in the national network founded by John van Hengel bid for donated food using what internal currency?

A) Shares

B) Credits

C) Tokens

D) Points

Answer · why

A) Shares

Shares: before 2005 the network handed out food centrally, and now food banks bid shares on incoming truckloads of donations.

Q 04/05

Which England footballer teamed up with UK surplus-food charity FareShare in March 2020?

A) Marcus Rashford

B) Harry Kane

C) Raheem Sterling

D) Jordan Henderson

Answer · why

A) Marcus Rashford

Marcus Rashford set an initial £100,000 target after making his own donation, and the drive went on to raise more than £20 million.

Q 05/05

Over 100 years, methane from landfilled food traps roughly how many times more heat than carbon dioxide?

A) 3

B) 30

C) 300

D) 3,000

Answer · why

B) 30

About 30 times: methane lasts only about a decade in the air, but it absorbs far more energy than carbon dioxide while it is there.