We waste a lot of food. While recently looking at the tipping floor of an anaerobic digestion facility, I was amazed at the recognizable foodstuffs disguised as food waste, waiting to enter the steel stomach of the digester. An interesting estimate is that at least 40 per cent of what is in a typical garbage bag is food waste. Some 50 per cent of that was edible at one point. There could be a big bright price sticker applied to the average garbage bag to say that about $10 worth of edible food is crumpled up and thrown away each week.
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