According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 120 billion pounds of food are wasted in the United States each year. To break these statistics down, it looks like this: 40 percent of the entire food supply in the United States is wasted per year; 325 pounds of waste per person; and $218 billion of food waste, or 130 billion meals are wasted per year.
This food is disposed of as trash and carted off to landfills, producing methane gas, which can be more harmful to the environment than emissions released from driving a car.
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