80 billion pounds of food is thrown out in the U.S. Here's how this new app wants to stop food waste
“We realized that today, one-third of the food we produce ends up in the trash," said Lucie Basch, Co-Founder of the Too Good To Waste app.
Author: Megan Rivers
Updated: 7:08 AM EST March 4, 2021
WASHINGTON — Across the United States, about 80 billion pounds of food is thrown out every year. That’s nearly 40% of the U.S. food supply. A new app is hoping to curb that number in the District to help residents get perfectly good food – for a discount - that would otherwise have been tossed out.