If you need yet another reason to not waste food, check this out: wasted food accounts for 2% of our collective annual energy use. While this may not seem like a lot, it’s an amount we need to get in check. Not only are we throwing perfectly decent food in the trash, we’re tossing out natural resources as well. We’ve talked about the need to throw away less food before (the average person tosses out 470 pounds a year), so make sure you’re maximizing leftovers or at least composting all that you can (here’s our how-to compost guide).
