A science-backed tip to waste less food on Thanksgiving
Posted on 11/27/2024
It is a great irony of American life that we celebrate Thanksgiving — a holiday meant to commemorate a group of people who narrowly escaped starving to death — by wasting more food than on nearly any other day of the year.
On a typical day, U.S. households throw out roughly 230 million pounds of food, according to data from ReFed, an American nonprofit that aims to reduce food waste. This Thanksgiving, ReFed estimates that number will rise to 316 million pounds. That’s more than $550 million worth of groceries, or enough to feed every food-insecure person in the United States five times.
On a typical day, U.S. households throw out roughly 230 million pounds of food, according to data from ReFed, an American nonprofit that aims to reduce food waste. This Thanksgiving, ReFed estimates that number will rise to 316 million pounds. That’s more than $550 million worth of groceries, or enough to feed every food-insecure person in the United States five times.
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