The U.S. produces about 591 billion pounds of food each year for consumption, and it is estimated that Americans waste more than 40 percent of that, costing farmers, consumers and businesses hundreds of billions of dollars.
Reducing food waste has been the goal of journalist and activist, Jonathan Bloom, for almost a decade. Bloom is an author, blogger, consultant and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. His book, “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (And What We Can Do About It)”, won the...
