U.S. households trash $640 in food a year

June 24, 2015:  USA Today
American households throw away about $640 each worth of food every year, and consumers don’t really care about the environmental impact of trashed leftovers piling up in landfills, according to a survey out Wednesday from the American Chemistry Council. At a time when Americans may be more attuned than ever to the chemical makeup of food, buying organic and sourcing locally, they’re still struggling to avoid throwing a lot of food away, data show.
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