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Learn More About Food Waste
Food Waste Facts
From A Beginner’s Guide to Food Waste and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
It is estimated that 30-40% of food is wasted in the United States.
The global volume of edible food waste is estimated to be 1.3 billion tonnes.
Decomposing food waste releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas. If food waste were its own country, it would rank third in the world for amount of greenhouse gases released every year, behind China and the US.
Reducing waste by only 15% in the US would save enough food to provide for an additional 25 million people each year.
In the US, $218 billion is spent annually to grow, process, transport, and dispose of food that is never eaten.
Across the world, the direct economic impact of food waste is approximately $750 billion annually.
28% of the world’s agricultural area is used to produce food that is never eaten.
For further resources on food waste, please see the Society of St. Andrew
Image credit: The Big Food Wasters / Tiffany Farrant / CC BY 2.0
