UN Agency: Over 1 Billion Tons of Food Wasted Each Year 

FILE - Garbage is loaded into a landfill in Lenox Township, Mich., July 28, 2022. A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022. FILE - A person picks through trash for reusable items as a fire rages at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi, Apr. 27, 2022.

The U.N. Environment Program's Food Waste Index Report released Wednesday found that 19% of food produced around the world ended up as waste in 2022, equivalent to around 1.05 billion metric tons of food.