Food waste in peoples homes is one of the main reasons that there is so much food waste. Everyone is being affected by this and you probably don’t even know how much food you are wasting and this is one of the main reasons why there is so much pollution. Food is constantly left on the plate uneaten. About 39.1% of food is left uneaten in restaurants. Restaurants in the US waste about 22 - 33 billion pounds of food waste in a year. We talked to Ben Delwiche. He talked about how in the bakery’s that he worked at, they would try to cut down on food waste whether it was giving it to food banks or composting it. He said that sometimes, he’d bring not fresh food home and eat it. In the end some food would always end up in the trash. In this article, they mention the effects on reducing food waste. Eliminating food waste can save money, have a lower carbon footprint, and help the community by donating not touched food.
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes is uneaten and 40 percent of all food is wasted. In the interview with Ben I learned them in the bakery he worked in the bakers would try their best to not waste. This included bringing food home and giving it to family or friends to minimize the food waste that they were producing.People have been wasting food for years and may not even notice the damage that they are doing to their community and their world. One of the biggest problems when it comes to food waste is that people think it is fine to just throw things away at their homes instead of eating, donating or saving the food. People don’t realize the toll of how much pollution and harm this does to our environment. This problem affects everybody on earth because it is their world that is being affected by all of this waste.