White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills

The Biden administration has issued, for the first time, a national strategy to combat a major national problem: food waste.Roughly 30 percent of the country’s food supply isn’t eaten, but thrown away or otherwise wasted. In fact, food is the single largest volume of material sent to landfills and incinerators in the United States. When uneaten food goes into landfills, it breaks down and produces as much…