About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets: You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: piles of unwanted food – unfinished second helpings, underwhelming kitchen experiments and the like – all dressed up with no place to go, except the back of the refrigerator.