Food Waste in America
Numbers
How to Reduce Waste
Percentages
Global Waste
100
Where does MGM Resorts International send some of their food scraps from their Las Vegas Strip properties?
What is RC Farms, a pig farm in North Las Vegas
100
How much does the United States spend a year to dispose of food waste.
What is 1 billion dollars
100
What do you call Preventing food waste before it is created
What is Source Reduction and Prevention
100
What percent of all food ready for harvest in the United States never gets eaten ?
What is 40-50%
100
Which country has the largest amount of waste?
What is US.
200
In 2011, how many tons of food waste was generated in the US
What is 36 million tons.
200
What do we call turning food waste into a valuable soil nutrient?
What is Composting.
200
What percent of greenhouse gases in the United States are associated with growing, manufacturing, transporting, and disposing of food?
What is 13%
300
How many Americans do not have access to enough food?
What is 50 million.
300
What term is used for feeding safe, fresh food scraps to animals like pig farms
What is feeding Animals
300
Landfills are the largest human-related source of methane in the United States, accounting for what percent of all methane emissions?
What is 34%
400
How is waste reduced by rendering fats, oils, and grease and turning it into products or biofuel
What is industrial Uses
400
What percent of waste, on average, is diverted from landfills and incinerators for composting in the US?
What is 4 %
500
What do you call turning food waste into renewable energy and a valuable soil amendment?
What is anaerobic digestion
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