Facts and Statistics
-10% of food waste will happen on a farm.
-Australians throw out 8 billion dollars worth of edible food each year. What is that they are throwing out? $2.67 billion. 33%, is fresh food, $2.18 billion, 27%, is leftovers, and $1.17 billion , 15%, is packaged, and non-perishable foods. $727 million, 9%, is assorted drinks, $727 million, 9%, is frozen food, and $566 million, 7%, is take out.
-In Toronto, Canada, single-family households will throw away approximately 275 kilograms of food, each year.
-Each year, consumers from industrialized countries, waste close to the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa.
-In the U.S. the organic waste is the second highest factor in the landfills.
-Australians discard up to 20% of the food they purchase. That's equivalent to 1 in every 5 bags of groceries, they buy.
-In the U.S. 30-40% of the food supply is discarded, or thrown away. That's equivalent to 20 pounds per person per month.
-in Australia, 345Kg of food is thrown out each year. This is the same as the weight of 3 basic sized fridges.
-Up to 40% of the average household garbage can is filled with food waste.
-The average American discards around 240 pounds of food each year.
-The average Australian household will throw away $1,036 of food every year. With that $1,036 you could feed the average home for over a month.
-Australian's waste 4,000,000 tonnes of food every year.
-In an average family of 4 in the U.S. throws away about $2,275 of food each year.
-Young consumers (18-24), households that make more than $100,000 a year, and families with children, are the biggest food wasters.
-It is estimated that 20-40% of fruits and vegetables are rejected, even before they reach the store, just because they are not perfect.
-If you were to add up all the food Australia wastes each year, it wold be enough to fill 450,00 garbage trucks. Put they trucks in a row, and they would bridge the gap between Australia and New Zealand just above 3 times.
-33 million tonnes of food is put into landfills each year.
-Less than 3% of food waste was composted in 2010.
-845 million people do not have enough to eat.
-1 in 8 people g to sleep every night hungry.
-1 in 6 Americans face hunger.
-98% of the world's hungry live in developing countries.
-60% of the world hungry are woman.
-50% of hungry people are farming families.
-50.1 million Americans struggle to put food on the table.
-11% of American households are in danger of hunger.
-In 2013, 14% (17.5 million) households were food insecure.
-Australians throw out 8 billion dollars worth of edible food each year. What is that they are throwing out? $2.67 billion. 33%, is fresh food, $2.18 billion, 27%, is leftovers, and $1.17 billion , 15%, is packaged, and non-perishable foods. $727 million, 9%, is assorted drinks, $727 million, 9%, is frozen food, and $566 million, 7%, is take out.
-In Toronto, Canada, single-family households will throw away approximately 275 kilograms of food, each year.
-Each year, consumers from industrialized countries, waste close to the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa.
-In the U.S. the organic waste is the second highest factor in the landfills.
-Australians discard up to 20% of the food they purchase. That's equivalent to 1 in every 5 bags of groceries, they buy.
-In the U.S. 30-40% of the food supply is discarded, or thrown away. That's equivalent to 20 pounds per person per month.
-in Australia, 345Kg of food is thrown out each year. This is the same as the weight of 3 basic sized fridges.
-Up to 40% of the average household garbage can is filled with food waste.
-The average American discards around 240 pounds of food each year.
-The average Australian household will throw away $1,036 of food every year. With that $1,036 you could feed the average home for over a month.
-Australian's waste 4,000,000 tonnes of food every year.
-In an average family of 4 in the U.S. throws away about $2,275 of food each year.
-Young consumers (18-24), households that make more than $100,000 a year, and families with children, are the biggest food wasters.
-It is estimated that 20-40% of fruits and vegetables are rejected, even before they reach the store, just because they are not perfect.
-If you were to add up all the food Australia wastes each year, it wold be enough to fill 450,00 garbage trucks. Put they trucks in a row, and they would bridge the gap between Australia and New Zealand just above 3 times.
-33 million tonnes of food is put into landfills each year.
-Less than 3% of food waste was composted in 2010.
-845 million people do not have enough to eat.
-1 in 8 people g to sleep every night hungry.
-1 in 6 Americans face hunger.
-98% of the world's hungry live in developing countries.
-60% of the world hungry are woman.
-50% of hungry people are farming families.
-50.1 million Americans struggle to put food on the table.
-11% of American households are in danger of hunger.
-In 2013, 14% (17.5 million) households were food insecure.