Why We Waste & How to Stop.

Endpoint consumers - home cooks and restaurant lovers - are directly responsible for just 1 percent of the total impact of food waste, with 80 percent of all emissions from food waste occurring on farms. A Bon Appétit Guide Humans throw away about 1.3 billion tons of food a year, or - at the very least - one third of all food in the world. IN THE U.S. THE B IGGE S T SOURCE OF food waste is food abundance paired with food anxiety. "Reducing food waste at the household level creates a chain reaction", says Kate Astashkina, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross business school who does systems analysis on food waste. [Extracted from the article]