Approximately 40 percent of the food produced in the United States goes to waste. The mountain of wasted food totals 63 million tons, of which over 10.1 million tons never get harvested from farms and more than 52.4 million tons ends up in landfills uneaten. The U.S. spends $218 billion per year (or 1.3% of GDP) growing, manufacturing, processing, distributing, and then disposing of food that never makes its way onto the table. (EndHunger.org, 2019)