When it comes to food waste, we’ve all seen the statistics—40% of the food produced in the United States each year is never eaten, amounting to about $162 billion lost every year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, New York. There are numerous food waste reduction strategies at the farm, manufacturing and consumer level that will all collectively contribute to helping decrease these figures.
When you begin to dig deeper into these statistics, you find that consumer confusion over the meaning of labels may account for as much as 20% of consumer waste of safe, edible food.