"Up to 40% of all food produced goes uneaten, and about 95% of discarded food ends up in landfills" - Harvard Public School of Health (2019)[1]

"[Food] is the largest component of municipal solid waste at 21%" - Harvard Public School of Health (2019)[1]

--> Environmental impact of food waste

Food packaging

--> The Environmental Impact of Food Packaging

Solutions

Food recovery hierachy

--> Roadmap to reduce US food waste by 20 percent

REFERENCES

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sustainability/food-waste/