Fast Facts
What percentage of food waste occurs in the supply chain before it even reaches consumers?
What is approximately 40% of all food produced?
At SPS what is wasted more pre-consumer or post-consumer?
Post Consumer
What country made a law that they need to donate food from grocery stores instead of discarding it? (Europe)
What is France?
What greenhouse gas is released during compost?
What is Methane?
what bin can you add to your home to properly take care of food scraps?
What is a compost bin?
What is the total number of tons of food that is wasted in America every year?
What is 1.3 billion tons? (about ⅔ of the total food produced or enough food to feed 3 billion people)
How much did St. Paul’s reduce its food waste by in the food waste challenge last year? (fraction less than a half)
What is 1/3?
Which country signed an agreement that pledges to cut food waste in half by 2030? (Europe)
What is Norway?
What product sprayed on food crops negatively impacts the farmland around?
What is Pesticides?
What kind of brands should you buy from in the grocery store?
What are local brands?
What is the fraction of seafood that is thrown out every year?
What is ½?
How much food is made in the Flik Kitchens before any is wasted?
What is 1306 pounds?
Which country has the highest number of food waste initiatives in Europe?
What is Denmark?
What percent are human-caused greenhouse gas emissions?
What is ⅓?
what is an alteration to your diet that can help reduce your carbon footprint?
What is not eating red meat?
How many people could use the water that goes into wasted food in America (200L/person/day)?
What is 9 billion people?
What is the average weight of post-consumer food waste per week at SPS?
What is around 1500 pounds?
Which country passed a law that requires food vendors to convert food waste into energy? (Asia)
What is Japan?
What substance powers the machines that produce food?
What are Fossil fuels?
How does taking less on your plate and coming back for seconds help food waste?
What is reducing post-consumer food waste?
What are smart shelves or dynamic pricing systems that adjust prices based on product freshness or nearing expiration dates?
What are ways to prevent food waste in grocery stores?
What was the reward last year for reducing our food waste at the end of our challenge?
What is a local ice cream feed?
Which country taxes excess food waste? (Asia)
What is South Korea?
What is an impact of Marine Fisheries?
What is overfishing?
Harvesting produce that is still consumable but not nice-looking enough to be sold in grocery stores, and selling it at a lower price or donating it
What is gleaning?