Wasteful Food Practices in the 21st Century Wasteful Food Practices in the 21st Century. What is food waste? ReFED, a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the U.S. food system, defines food waste as “uneaten food and inedible parts that end up being landfilled, incinerated, disposed of down the sewer, dumped, or spread onto land.”1 This food is considered to be safe and of high-quality.2 ReFED considers food waste to be a subset of “surplus food” which they define as “all food that goes unsold or unused by a business or that goes uneaten at home,”… Continue reading Wasteful Food Practices in the 21st Century
