This New Jersey family, themselves avid gardeners and food composters, are surrounded by groceries representing the 1.2 million calories the average family leaves uneaten every year.

Why Do We Waste So Much Food and How Can We Stop?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 16, 2014

The typical American family of four wastes up to 1,160 pounds of food every year. And one-third of the food we grow in this country is never eaten. Elizabeth Royte talks about the high rate or wasted food and what can be done about it. She’s the author of the article “One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done” in National Geographic magazine.

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