Business View Magazine | September 2019

7 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 OPENING L INES Food waste is the number one component found in America’s landfills. And there is a reason for that. More food than we’d like to admit routinely gets tossed in the trash. In fact, 40 percent of all food produced in the United States is discarded. Twenty percent of the food we buy is never eaten. The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA), in partnership with education curriculum specialists Young Minds Inspired (YMI), has developed a No Taste for Food Waste educational program that is addressing food waste by educating future consumers about the problem. Targeted at middle and high school students in family and consumer/environmental science and health classes, the curriculum materials, which include a teacher’s guide, lesson plans, reproducible student activities and more, have been distributed to more than 65,000 targeted educators across the country. Turning Around the Food Waste Trend The effects of food waste are astounding – on the economy, it equates to about $218 billion of food lost each year; and on American families, we each toss approximately 300 pounds of food a year, costing a family of four as much as $2,200. “This unique No Taste for Food Waste educational initiative addresses food waste problems in ways that teens, teachers and parents can relate,” commented Skip Shaw, A GOOD TIME TO GO “BACK TO SCHOOL” ON FOODWASTE