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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
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