Food Waste Is One of the Most Actionable Issues We Can Tackle in the Fight Against Climate Change

Our food system is radically inefficient.Overall, it is estimated that 24 percent of all food in the U.S.—about 54 million tons—goes to waste annually. That means that each year, we’re letting the equivalent of nearly 90 billion meals’ worth of food go unsold or uneaten, which is roughly 2 percent of the...