Together, the two nutrients would add an estimated 6 to 10 cents to the cost
of food per person per year — or collectively some $ 19 million.
Plans include an indoor spa, a movie theater, and a general store that won't charge money — the purchase price includes five
years of food per person.
This works out to more than 20
pounds of food per person per month that gets tossed into dumpsters or garbage cans and taken to landfill sites.
Store 2,000 to 3,000
calories of food per person, per day, of nonperishable food, avoiding salty foods, and including some food variety for a longer emergency
The increase in production of food in the world following the Green Revolution has hardly done more than maintain the existing
amount of food per person because of the continuous increment in population.
«Food wastage contributes to a lot of the food insecurity — a developed country such as the US or Europe wastes around 100
kilograms of food per person every year.
«Our results show that even modest reductions in the
availability of food per person could lead to changes in the energy content and composition of diets, and these changes will have major consequences for health.»
Estimates indicate Americans waste between 10 to 15 % of the food they buy and more than half a pound
of food per person is sent to the landfill everyday.
US consumers waste nearly a pound
of food per person each day, but the exact amount of food we trash differs by how healthy your diet is, a new national study finds.