1. courtesy of Just Eat It movie.

2. About how many days past the sell-by
date can you eat eggs?
a) None, that’s gross
b) 3-5
c) 10-20
d) 20-35

3. Let’s just say you weren’t quite sure,
so you put the egg in a bowl of water.
You know it’s is still good to eat it if it:
a) Floats
b) Sinks

4. Okay, let’s just say it floated and you
toss it. How many minutes of a
shower could you have taken with the
water it took to produce that egg?
a) 5
b) 11
c) 25
d) 40

5. And what if instead of an egg, you threw out
a hamburger? How many minutes of
showering then?
a) 20
b) 50
c) 75
d) 90

6. And let’s just say instead of one
hamburger, you threw out all the turkey
that gets thrown out over Thanksgiving.
How many New York – San Francisco car
trips would produce the same GHGs?
a) 8, 000
b) 80,000
c) 800,000
d) 8 million

7. We invest a huge amount in agriculture in the U.S.

8. 40 Percent of food in the United States goes uneaten.

9. And it costs a lot $162 - $218
billion

10. This has serious resource impacts

11. 141 TRILLION CALORIES
It’s also a huge loss of nutrition

14. SOME SOLUTIONS

18. Building consumer momentum
Reforming food date labels
Identifying & piloting model policies and programs
What is NRDC doing?

21. Consumer Education

22. REDUCE FOOD WASTE
50% BY 2030
The moment to seize
On September 16, 2015, U.S. announced goal to

23. Let’s just say you were concerned about
this whole food waste thing,
what could you do?
a) Something

24. DANA GUNDERS
DGUNDERS@NRDC.ORG