11.27.09
Americans’ food waste
Published on Friday, November 27, 2009 by Live Science
Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food
by Robert Roy Britt
U.S. residents are wasting food like never before.
While many Americans feasted on turkey and all the fixings yesterday, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year.