Did your mother ever use the line "there are starving
children in Africa" to get you to clear your dinner plate as a child?
While that may not have been the most effective tactic, her heart was in the
right place. As a society, though, we haven’t exactly made our moms proud since
then. A new NRDC report shows that in America up to 40 percent of all edible
food is not eaten, which translates to about $28-$43 worth of food every month
per person -- not to mention the staggering environmental costs of producing,
packaging, and transporting food that gets discarded. Find out how you can
lessen the burden on your own wallet.
To read more about food waste, check out Laura
Wright Treadway's terrific OnEarth article, which was one of the first pieces
to give the issue widespread attention and is still one of OnEarth's most
popular columns. Read the article.
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