Food that’s not planned to be used can be used for someone else in need. Food can be given to those who do not have access to it.
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Why grocery Stores Throw Out Good Food
1. Overstocked product displays:
Most grocery stores operate under the assumption that customers are more likely to buy produce if it’s from a fully stocked display. This assumption leads to overstocking, as well as damage to items on the bottom of those perfectly constructed produce pyramids.
2. Expectation of cosmetic perfection:
Customers have been trained to expect perfect, identically shaped produce. Retailers stock their produce according to that expectation — even if the shape, size, and color have nothing to do with quality.
This preference leads farms to avoid selling the so-called “B” stock to supermarkets. Whatever does make it through the cracks to store floor is taken out of stock.
3. Sell-by dates:
Most consumers have no idea what expiration dates, sell-by dates, use-by dates, or best-by dates mean. Consumers (and many sellers) wrongly assume that food is no longer good after these days. Instead, sell-by dates are guidelines for sellers to indicate peak freshness. Most foods are good long after the sell-by date.
Fearing consumers will either not buy the food or think the stores are carrying old products, most grocery stores pull the items out of stock several days before the sell-by date.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-grocery-stores-throw-out-so-much-food-2014-10
Food waste comes with a price tag
About one-third of all food produced worldwide, worth around US$1 trillion, gets lost or wasted in food. This happens because people feel too full to finish big portions from a restaurant. People then figure to throw their scraps in the trash. The amount of food lost and wasted every year is equal to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crops (2.3 billion tons in 2009/10).In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equaling more than 20 pounds of food per person per month. That food wasted could have gone to a food drive, a person starving, or a family that can’t afford to have a nice dinner. It’s a shame to hear that their is still world hunger while food is being wasted. If food is wasted, the food wasted can go to hungry people.
U.S. Food Waste Disposal Data
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