Cutting food waste can help solve the climate crisis

Wasting food: Americans throw away five billion bananas every year – and a lot more food. — (Dreamstime/TNS)

SOMETIME over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin. You probably didn’t think much about tossing it. But all told, Americans throw away five billion bananas every year – and a lot more food.

Across the US food supply in 2019,35% of it – some 80 million tonnes of food – went unsold or uneaten.