{"id":34181,"date":"2012-08-22T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/americans_toss_out_as_much_as_40_of_their_food_study_says\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:11:08","slug":"americans_toss_out_as_much_as_40_of_their_food_study_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34181","title":{"rendered":"Americans toss out as much as 40% of their food, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40% of the country\u2019s supply each year \u201d\u201c a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.<\/p>\n<p>An average family of four squanders $2,275 in food each year, or 20 pounds per person per month, according to the nonprofit and nonpartisan environmental advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>Food waste is the largest single portion of solid waste cramming American landfills. Since the 1970s, the amount of uneaten fare that is dumped has jumped 50%. The average American trashes 10 times as much food as a consumer in Southeast Asia, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-food-waste-nrdc-20120821,0,7810321.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40% of the country\u2019s supply each year \u201d\u201c a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34181\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,582,100,149,98,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-marriage-family","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}