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How Much Food Does The Average American Family Throw Away Each Month? |
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| By Michael d'Estries in Composting, Conservation, Green facts, Recycling | May 19, 2008 | ||
122 lbs. That’s how much enters the waste stream each month from the average American home (family of four). Ridiculous, sad, and incredible at the same time, isn’t it? A study conducted in 1995 estimated that 96.4 billion pounds of edible food was wasted each year — not to mention all of that probably went straight into the landfill. Imagine the recycled compost that could be generated from that!
The fascinating graphical representation of our monthly waste, as created by the NY Times, is shown below. Click on it to be taken to a much higher res, readable version.
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Pattyb68 said,
Wow, I can’t believe what I read, but you see it all the time especially in restaurants. My biggest complaint is in all you can eat places. People pile their plates with salads, come back for seconds and then order a huge meal. It makes me sick to see how much food is left on plates to just get thrown away.
My husband and I have stopped eating in restaurants for several reasons; 1) You get too much food. Even when we take our left-overs to go we can’t eat it all 2) alot of the food is delivered from out of state which doesn’t exactly help the economy of your home state and 3) who knows what is added to the food to make it soooo tasty.
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I hope this current economic crisis wakes up people to all the waste in this country.
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jadian said,
omg i cant believe wqat im seeing that so so much now im going to think twice about wat i put into the trash and im going to go out and buy a recycling bin thanks for telling me that stuff
food wacthers said,
i agree. no one knows what is put in our food when it is sent over seas. i bet they donot even have refrigration on the ships that take the food over here
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