Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet

Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet — page 9
That food adds up in big ways In the United States a family of four spends 1,500 a year on food they don’t eat That’s like buying five bags of groceries and throwing two in the garbage When you add up how much most families waste it totals more than 180 billion You could probably buy every professional sports team in North America for that and still have money left over for a stadium hot dog In the United Kingdom people throw away up to 11 million tons 10 million metric tons of food each year because they buy too much or don’t use it all on time A food-waste organization called Love Food Hate Waste found that every day about 20 million slices of bread are thrown away in UK homes enough to feed 10 million people After a year those slices could circle the earth from pole to pole 28 times Canadian households waste almost 20 million tons 18 million metric tons of food a year 63 percent of which could have been eaten What does that look like Every day Canadians waste Too much good produce is wasted in grocery stores But households are the biggest source of waste of all AANEELA DREAMSTIME COM 470000 heads of lettuce 1200000 tomatoes 2400000 potatoes 750000 loaves of bread 1225000 apples 555000 bananas 1000000 cups of milk 450000 eggs Erin Silver