Americans waste more than 165 million kilograms (364 million pounds) of food every day but two-thirds of residential food waste in the United States is edible. Meanwhile, 1 in 8 people in the U.S. do not have regular access to food.
Fighting Food Waste for World Food Day
FAO estimates that if we managed to eat all the food we currently waste, we could feed every hungry person in the world—four times over