A recent report with the U.N. Environment Programme found that individual households produce more than 500 million tons of food waste a year. If food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet behind the U.S. and China. Everyone can help by addressing the problem at home, buying what we need and eating what we buy. Read more: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/report-households-waste-more-than-500-million-metric-tons-of-food-each-year/