- 40% of food produced in US is wasted and ends up in landfills
- 96 Billion pounds of good food is wasted every year
- Wasted food would fill 91 Empire State Buildings
- Food is the largest source of solid waste in landfills
- 25% of all fresh water used on food never eaten
- 4% of total U.S. oil consumption used for food never eaten
- Disposal costs of wasted food is over $1 billion dollars
- Value of wasted food is $31 billion dollars
- Just 20% recovery of food would feed 25 million people daily
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