Every year, Canadians throw away nearly 2.3 million tonnes of edible food. That’s enough to fill the Rogers Centre in Toronto eight times over. But the real cost isn’t measured in stadium volumes. It’s measured in the greenhouse gases heating our atmosphere, the fresh water vanished from our lakes and rivers, and the valuable farmland degraded for nothing.
When food rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. If global food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the United States. In Canada alone, food …
Category: Food Waste Education
Explainers, data, and guidance on the environmental, economic, and social impacts of food waste in Canada, plus community-driven ways to reduce it at home and locally.
