We’re all guilty of it. You put your bananas on the counter and then a week later you’ve eaten two out of your 8 banana bunch and they’re past the point of no return so you toss them. Or maybe you meant to make fresh chicken but it got buried in the back of your fridge so you had to throw it out. Today’s article discusses a disturbing but very real fact about the amount of food American’s throw away. Here’s a quote from the article, “In 2012, the most recent year for which estimates are available, Americans threw out roughly 35 million tons of food, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s almost 20 percent more food than the United States tossed out in 2000, 50 percent more than in 1990, and nearly three times what Americans discarded in 1960, when the country threw out a now seemingly paltry 12.2 million tons.” To read more, CLICK HERE.
