Wasted food can impact the world not just financially, but environmentally. This is because fuel is wasted for the food along with pesticides and other chemicals. ⅓ of the world's food is either lost or wasted. This is about 1.3 billion tons of food. In the USA, most of the contents of landfills are wasted food, which is the largest source of methane gas. 30% of food in USA is wasted, along with 50% of the water used to make that food. |