What Happens to Birds when They Eat Plastic. The United States Is a Food Wasteland. We throw away enough food to feed the entire world.
A new book tries to find a solution. When it comes to food, Americans are the undisputed champions of one thing: trash. We waste food in volumes that it defies the imagination. New York City alone has an annual surplus of about 50 million pounds of food. Ten years ago, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated that more than 96 billion pounds of edible food went to waste. One Laptop Per Child.