America's food waste problem is a national one but small steps can make a difference.
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100 WAYS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE YOU MUST TRY
“Everyone understands that wasting food is bad” says Brian Lipinski of the Food Program at the World Resource Institute a think tank that promotes economic and environmental sustainability. Yet he says it’s difficult for individuals to understand how much food they’re actually wasting let alone the economic and environmental costs associated with that waste. Moreover few people understand how the amount of food waste they produce compares to other sources of food waste making it even more complicated for them to determine how much time and energy to devote to the problem in their daily lives.
Yet the importance of trying to address this problem at the individual level is clear. Extensive research has shown that individual consumers are responsible for not only producing a significant amount of food waste in the U.S. but also some of the most harmful forms of food waste. And while every researcher I’ve spoken to about the problem has emphasized that much of that individual waste is actually generated largely by decisions made by food manufacturers retailers and other upstream actors they still argue that individuals can play a critical role in reducing food waste. But because each of our relationships with food systems is unique no single set of best practices will work for all or even most of us meaning that we’ll all have to come up with our own approaches to reducing food waste.
That may sound daunting but there are a few simple tricks that can help you figure out how to best reduce food waste in ways that work for you and your lifestyle. Every little bit of waste reduction helps.
