I learned this about the food Americans waste from this article in The Atlantic: “Your Diet Is Cooking the Planet: But two simple changes can help. [1]”
Let’s begin with the role of food waste. Americans waste a lot of food. Nearly one-third of it [2], in fact. More than 130 billion pounds a year, worth roughly $160 billion. We throw away enough food to close our own “meal gap” [3] eight times over. Food is the single biggest component of our country’s landfills [4], and the average American sends more than 200 pounds of food there every year. More than 1,250 calories per person a day, or more than 140 trillion calories a year, get tossed in the garbage.
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