According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, roughly between 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is wasted.
The average American family of four tosses over 1,160 pounds of food a year — from scraps, to spills and spoilage. That’s 1.2 million calories—enough to provide one person over 3,200 calories of food a day.
Globally the problem is magnified. Industrialized nations like the U.S. and U.K. waste 1.5 trillion pounds annually– an amount almost equal to the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization, a division of the United Nations.
All this waste is costing us between $162 and $165 billion annually.*
How might we change our relationship with food, reducing the amount that ends up as waste and possibly innovating what happens to it before it ends up in the waste bin?
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