Food losses and wastes occur at all stages of the production chain, on a worldwide scale it
is estimated that, each year, approximately 1.3 billion tons of food are lost in the world
and the fight against food waste throughout country is necessary and must be intensified
with accurate public policies, with the participation of human society in general. The
research based on the literature is due to the fact that during the information survey,
Pandemic was established, COVID -19, in the midst of humanity, preventing the field
research that I had already conceived before the pandemic was not feasible. if it is done,
for this reason, we have chosen to study in the literature: in articles, books, theses and
CBT, dissertations and in laws, which fostered the proposed theme. The general objective
of the study was to know how food waste presents itself and the role of environmental
education in this process, with the following guiding questions: what is the scenario of
food waste and the role of environmental education to avoid such waste? What are the
consequences of food waste that can cause the environment? The study method is based
on the inductive, with a qualitative approach. The main results were: food losses along
the production chain prevail in developing countries, waste, in turn, is also prevalent in
developed countries; that food waste and loss is a serious problem to be solved in several
countries; that Brazil is on the list of the 10 (ten) countries that most waste food in the
world, generating discard of approximately 30% of everything that is produced for
consumption. This generates a loss for the economy of almost 940 billion dollars a year,
affecting several working classes and the development of the country; that in Brazil there
is a law for the issue of food waste, No. 8.137 / 90 of the Consumer Protection Code, “It
constitutes a crime against consumer relations”: IX - selling, having a deposit to sell or
displaying for sale or, in any way, deliver raw material or merchandise, in conditions
unfit for consumption; that environmental education can be an instrument capable of
contributing to educational practices, in order to face food waste, for example: practices
of sustainability's R's, reducing, rethinking, refusing and reusing; and that any nation
needs to expand accurate public policies to combat the eradication of food waste.
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