The Facts
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- Buying directly from farmers equals to less overall food waste.
- 20% of fresh produce goes to waste.
- The U.S has pledged to cut food waste in half by 2030.
- Farmers in Kenya waste 50% of their harvest.
- Enough food goes to waste each year to feed three billion people.
- In places like Chicago farmers pick up wasted food to use as compost.
- The average American wastes 20 pounds of food each month.
- The average American wastes 209-254 pounds of food a year.
- The area where the largest amount of food is wasted is the consumer level.
- The average U.S restaurant wastes 25,000 to 75,000 pounds/year
- All food wasted so far is equal to about $1,000,000,000,000.00
- 2.3 billion tons of food were lost from 2009-2010
- Less than 3% of food was composted in 2010
- One in four calories are consumed in an average meal.
- On average, 1,100 calories are wasted a day per person
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