Waste more, want more: America throws out good food
- Americans waste up to ten times more food than someone who lives in southeast Asia, which is up 50 percent from an American in the 1970s.
- Americans throw away 40 percent of their food on average.
- $165 billion worth of food is thrown away each year.
- The average American family throws out $2,200 each year.
- Garbage production in the US has doubled in the past 30 years.
- The average American throws away seven pounds of garbage a day.
- The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, but consumes more than 30 percent of the world’s energy & creates 70 percent of global toxic waste.
