Guess what the #1 product is in our landfills today? Food.
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About a third of all the food we produce goes to waste. What we thoughtlessly leave to rot in fields, landfills, and our own refrigerators could alleviate world hunger and help reverse climate change. — from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
A new documentary from filmmaker Karim Chrobog asks why we waste so much food in the U.S. According to the film, about 40% of the food we produce is never eaten—it ends up in landfills, or it’s burned in incinerators. When so many people on the planet don’t have enough food to eat, what is the cost—globally and environmentally—of all this wasted food?
H/T: Digg
