How Food Waste is Contributing to Climate Change and What is Being Done to Help
The United States discards more food than any other country in the world, wasting an estimated 1.4 billion tons of food each year. To break it down, the average family of four wastes 612 pounds of food in one year.
All that wasted food is taking up more space in our nation’s landfills than anything else and producing methane emissions linked to climate change. One solution to minimize harm wrought to the climate by food waste is by investing in more food composition.