Quiz: How much food do we throw away every day?

In the United States, we throw out 42 billion pounds of food a year. That’s like throwing away the weight of over 8,600 elephants worth of food every single day! As that food breaks down, it releases dangerous greenhouse gases.

Can you guess how much food we throw out every day in the United States?

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