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.
Quiz: How much food do we throw away every day?
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That awful lot food.
I like lots of these foods. It’s sad that these good foods get thrown out so often.
So much waste!
It is sad really.
Yeah
Oof….
I got 6/9
Wow
That is a lot of wasted food
That’s such a waste of food!!!