dana gunders - waste

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About how many days past the sell-by date can you eat eggs?

a) None, that’s grossb) 3-5c) 10-20d) 20-35

Let’s just say you weren’t quite sure, so you put the egg in a bowl of water. You know it’s is still good

to eat it if it:

a) Floatsb) Sinks

Okay, let’s just say it floated and you toss it. How many minutes of a shower could you have taken with the water it took to produce that

egg?

a) 5b) 11c) 25d) 40

And what if instead of an egg, you threw out a hamburger? How many minutes of showering then?

a) 20b) 50c) 75d) 90

And let’s just say instead of one hamburger, you threw out all the turkey that gets thrown out over Thanksgiving. How many New York – San Francisco car trips would produce the same GHGs?

a) 8, 000b) 80,000c) 800,000d) 8 million

We invest a huge amount in agriculture in the U.S.

40 Percent of food in the United States goes uneaten.

And it costs a lot $162 - $218 billion

This has serious resource impacts

141 TRILLION CALORIES

It’s also a huge loss of nutrition

SOME SOLUTIONS

Building consumer momentumReforming food date labelsIdentifying & piloting model policies and programs

What is NRDC doing?

Consumer Education

REDUCE FOOD WASTE 50% BY

2030

The moment to seize

On September 16, 2015, U.S. announced goal to

Let’s just say you were concerned about this whole food waste thing,

what could you do?

a) Something

DANA GUNDERSDGUNDERS@NRDC.ORG