CONSIDER THE TOMATO...
31% of fresh tomatoes bought by U.S. households are
thrown out—that's 21 tomatoes a year per person!
    $2.3
    BILLION
Throwing out that many
tomatoes costs us a bundle—
over $2.3 billion a year.

If only it was just tomatoes...
the cost of all U.S. household
food waste = $166 BILLION!
 WASTED FOOD = WASTED  RESOURCES
U.S. FOOD WASTE ACCOUNTS FOR:
                                Enough
                               energy to
                               power the
                               country for
                               more than
                                a week.
                                           Enough
                                         land to feed
                                         the world's
                                           hungry.
By  making  small shifts in how  we  shop, store, and prepare  food,  we

can  keep the  valuable resources used  to produce and distribute food

from going to waste.

Sources: USDA Economic Research Service,(ERS) Total and Per Capita Value of Food Loss in the United State (2012); USDA ERS , The Value of Retail- and Consumer-
Level Fruit and Vegetable Losses in the United States (2011); Venkat, The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste in the United States (2012): Hall et al, The
Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impacts (2009)
&EPA
   United States
   Environmental Protection
   Agency
                                              EPA-530-16-F-014-H
                                              February 2016

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