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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Grrrrr…… That’s not OK to our planet.
OMG that is way to much food. I mean it way to much!
9/9 correct answers
All taste no waste is always good
3/9
2 much 🙁
People are so careless! They’re just like: ” I’m just going to throw this away and I don’t care about where it ends up. ”
9/9
That’s a lot of wasted food
I can’t believe all that good food goes to waste! They probably throw hundreds or thousands of my favorite food away when it hasn’t even been eaten!