Impacts on your wallet 

• A family of four can save more than $1,500 a year by making changes in how they shop, prepare and store food. 
• Americans families throw out approximately 20 percent of the food and beverage they buy. 

Impacts on the environment

• Twenty-five percent of U.S. freshwater supplies go to producing food that is wasted.
• Throwing away one apple is like dumping 25-gallons of water down the drain or running your shower for 12 minutes.  

Impacts on the community

• Americans waste 1,249 calories in food, per person, every day. 
• Nearly one in six households (16.1 percent) in Oregon were "food insecure" between 2013-15. That means they lacked consistent access to adequate amounts of nutritious food.

Statistical Resources

• Save the Food
• "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill" - National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
• "This is how much water you waste when you throw away food" - The Smithsonian
• "The Estimated Amount, Value, and Calories of Postharvest Food Losses at the Retail and Consumer Levels in the United States" - USDA
• Food Insecurity Key Statistics - USDA

Learn more

• "Food Power Per Hour" - Converting Your Food Waste Into Energy - Save on Energy 2017
• "To End Food Waste, Change Needs to Begin at Home" - NPR 2014
• Food Product Dating - USDA
• "Reducing Food Loss and Waste" - World Resources Institute
• "A look at the $175 in your compost" - Grist
• "Everything you need to know about food waste ..." - in 11 short films.