Register for the Food Waste webinar!
Environmental Protection Agency - Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response (CESER)ver one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce, transport, process and distribute it 鈥 and much of it is sent to landfills, where it breaks down and generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. EPA recently released two new reports quantifying methane emissions from landfilled food waste and updating recommendations for managing wasted food: From Field to Bin: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste Management Pathways and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Landfilled Food Waste.