Food Waste

The top 5 wasted foods every year in the US are

8 Ways to Help Preserve Food

1. Learn to Preserve Correctly

2. Keep your Fridge Clutter-Free

3. Save Leftovers

4. Blend up extra food, make a smoothie

5. Be freezer friendly

6. COMPOST if you can

7. Pack your own lunch

8. SHOP SMART

Types of Food Waste

1. Vegetable commodities and products

Agricultural production: losses due to mechanical damage or spilling during harvest operation
Postharvest handling and storage: losses due to spillage and degradation during handling in transportation
Processing: losses to spilling and degradation during industrial or domestic processing
Distribution: losses and waste in the market system
Consumption: losses and waste at the household level

2. Animal commodities and products

Agricultural production: Milk is lost to decreased milk production due to dairy cow sickness. Fish is lost to discards during fishing. Meat is lost due to animal death during breeding.
Postharvest handling and storage: For milk, there is spillage and degradation during transportation. There is degradation and spilling for fish during icing, packaging, storage, and transportation. Meat is wasted during transit to slaughter and condemnation at the slaughterhouse.
Processing: Milk has spillage during industrial milk treatment production. Fish is lost to processing such as canning or smoking. Meat is lost to trimming spillage during slaughtering
Distribution: losses in the market system
Consumption: losses and waste in the house level

These foods should go in the trash or compost

What foods get recycled or compost