August 21/Portland/Oregon Live -- A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council offers some startling statistics about the amount of food wasted in the U.S. and points out efforts by governments and consumers that could help cut back the amount of food that ends up in landfills.
In a report entitled "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill," the council says that 40% of all food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten. Tha is more than 20 pounds of food per person every month. The cash value of all that wasted food totals $165 billion each year.