Introduction The idea for this book came from my fridge 900 million metric tons of food get Well from all the food in my fridge One thrown away each year That’s enough to day after buying groceries I opened the feed three billion people in a time when fridge door and realized I’d bought more at least 900 million suffer from hunger milk meat fruits and vegetables than my Most of this wasted food ends up rotting family could eat in the week I hadn’t stuck in landfills And that’s a huge problem The to my shopping list I hadn’t made a meal UN report also found that up to 10 percent plan Now I was faced with a problem how of global greenhouse gas emissions are was my family going to finish what we had caused by wasted food This means that While some families don’t have all the food we don’t eat contributes to enough to eat others have plenty and global warming What’s the connection food rots in the fridge or gets thrown out Keep flipping the pages to find out In fact food waste is a major problem The good news is that many countries all over the world Every day in grocery have promised to cut food waste in half by stores restaurants our homes and even 2030 It’s a big undertaking But if we all school cafeterias good food is tossed in work together we can meet this goal and the trash And not just a few leftover peas make sure hungry people have access to from your dinner plate or the crusts from food And by reducing food waste we’ll be your sandwich at lunch We’re talking fighting the climate crisis at the same time about massive amounts of usable food With some simple easy tips you can cut food in countries around the globe According waste starting today Good Food Bad Waste to a 2021 United Nations UN study of will teach you how and give you lots of global food waste almost a billion tons information to chew on 1
3 One Full Fridges and Family Sized Foods Did your parents ever tell you not to waste food because people in other countries are starving Well people in your own class could be hungry too Food insecurity affects approximately 13 million kids in the United States that's 1 in 6. In Canada it's 1 in 6 as well which means that 1 kid on your hockey team's starting lineup doesn't have enough to eat To put it another way in a classroom of 24 4 children might not have eaten breakfast on any given day Around the world 1 in 9 doesn't have enough food Yet when you throw out the bruised apple in your lunch bag or don't feel like eating your dad's leftover meatloaf it's hard to see how your food waste affects others After all it's not like someone else is going to eat what you don't want But the idea that it's okay to waste food is something we need to decide is unacceptable Right now many of us don't think too much about this issue at all And that has to change Many of us don't finish our food and are quick to toss out anything we don't want to eat TETRA IMAGES GETTY IMAGES
