Food Waste

• Americans throw away 1.3 pounds of food everyday
• 474.5 pounds of food is thrown away per year by Americans

But...

• 730,000 tons of food is recovered

How?

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Statistics and Poverty in America: Food Waste

Poverty and Food Waste in America Article

• 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in America once a year
• 3.5% of U.S. households experience hunger
• 33 million families live in households without an adequate food supply
• 14% of Americans waste their food purchases
• 49 million people could be fed by food that is wasted, unopened, and still within their expiration dates

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I googled Morris County Food Pantries and found:

• The history of Interfaith Food Pantry
• Who is hungry? Many people who live in a food insecure household, a household that is unable to obtain sufficient food, are hungry.
  

• Of the 49.1 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007), 32.4 million are adults (14.4 percent of all adults) and 16.7 million are children (22.5 percent of all children).
• 17.3 million people lived in households that were considered to have "very low food security," a USDA term (previously denominated "food insecure with hunger") that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of the inability to afford enough food. This was up from 11.9 million in 2007 and 8.5 million in 2000.
• Very low food security had been getting worse even before the recession. The number of people in this category in 2008 is more than double the number in 2000.
• Black (25.7 percent) and Hispanic (26.9 percent) households experienced food insecurity at far higher rates than the national average.