Source: Lauren Lumpkin, WASHINGTON POST, 9/30/21


If America went grocery shopping, it would leave with five bags of food and empty two into the street, according to estimates by experts from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The United States wastes up to 40 percent of all the food it produces — between 125 and 160 billion pounds annually — at nearly every stage of production, researchers have found. “Think about the greenhouse gas implications, of water use,” said Sauleh Siddiqui, an associate professor of environmental science at American University. “This is a big chunk of all our resources that we’re using that we should be doing better on.”

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