JULIE ALBRIGHT Now is my time to stand up and fight for what's right I like school and hanging out with friends, and I play on the basketball team. The boysâ basketball team. I'll take on any challenge.
Food products make up 63 percent of a supermarketâs disposed waste stream, according to a California Integrated Waste Management Board industry study. Thatâs approximately 3,000 lbs. thrown away per employee every year.
1 Approximately 8 to 10 billion dollars of food is wasted each year in commercial and residential waste. 2  Thatâs around four million tonnes of food that ends up as landfill. [1]. 3  Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year â approximately 1.3 billion tonnes â gets lost or wasted.