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EU generates 129 kg of food waste per person annually

Rank
Ran
7h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
4

+0

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 29 Sept, 13:32 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Ελληνικά (3) · Português (1) · Română (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 7 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: G4Media, 29 Sept, 08:34 UTC.
  2. Second country: Greece, with ERT.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 15:57 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

8 of 8 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 83%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

  1. G4Media 29 Sept, 08:34 UTC
  2. ERT +4h 19m
  3. Anadolu Agency +4h 59m
  4. Público +7h 23m
  5. Alphanews +7h 24m

Last to join

  1. Politis 29 Sept, 16:04 UTC
  2. Alphanews 29 Sept, 15:58 UTC
  3. Público 29 Sept, 15:57 UTC
  4. Anadolu Agency 29 Sept, 13:32 UTC
  5. ERT 29 Sept, 12:53 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Romania. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, English, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article G4Media, 29 Sept 2026, 08:34 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 16:04 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 349 3.57 6 5 6 5 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 29 Sept, 09:00 UTC · Updated 16:04 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Europe 5 outlets

  • Politis Cyprus 29 Sept, 16:04 UTC
    Κύπρος: Πρωταθλήτρια στα απόβλητα τροφίμων στην ΕΕ – 295 κιλά ανά κάτοικο το 2024
  • Alphanews Cyprus 29 Sept, 15:58 UTC
    Την υψηλότερη ποσότητα αποβλήτων τροφίμων ανά κάτοικο στην ΕΕ κατέγραψε η Κύπρος
  • Público Portugal 29 Sept, 15:57 UTC
    Cada português desperdiça 161 quilos de comida por ano. Portugal acima da média da UE
  • ERT Greece 29 Sept, 12:53 UTC
    Eurostat: Τα νοικοκυριά ευθύνονται για περισσότερο από τη μισή σπατάλη τροφίμων στην ΕΕ
  • G4Media Romania 29 Sept, 08:34 UTC
    Uniunea Europeană generează anual peste 58 de milioane de tone de deşeuri alimentare, potrivit datelor Eurostat / Mai mult de jumătate din această cantitate provine din gospodării

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 29 Sept, 13:32 UTC
    EU generates 129-kg of food waste per person
Read at Anadolu Agency

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