The Importance Of Food Waste In America

m sure many of you have seen it; the manager at the grocery store carting out boxes of cereal past their expiration date, the employee at the Little Caesar's throwing away anything that's ten minutes "past its most important" or your friends at school dumping half their tray into the garbage bin. Sometimes even witnessing your Mom throwing away that box of Chinese Takeout from last week, or even that brown banana everyone choose to just stare at. This is all food waste, and it’s one of the biggest problems facing not only American citizens but people all over the world. Although personally, I believe Americans waste the most, Caroline Scott-Thomas [author of “US wastes 40% of its food production, finds NRDC”] and Danielle Nierenberg, with the