Americans are believed to waste about $165 billion USD worth of food every year

Americans are believed to waste about $165 billion USD worth of food every
year.
It is estimated that the United States wastes about 40% of its edible food
each year. Collectively, Americans are thought to throw away about $165
billion USD worth of food annually, although it can be difficult to track
the precise values. The amount of food that gets wasted is thought to be
about 50% more than Americans wasted during the 1970s and about 10 times
more per person than the average person wastes in Southeast Asia. In 2013,
the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) began an initiative to fight food waste in America, which they say
contributes to climate change because of gases released by decomposing food
in landfills.

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