Raina Genaw It’s at the center of every holiday celebration you’ll attend this year: food. In America, we waste approximately 382 billion dollars each year of food. 1  In 2024 alone, 23.5 million tons of food were wasted in homes across the US. Of that wasted food, nearly half went to a landfill. 2  At the root of this issue is overproduction and overpurchasing of food. Avoiding food waste not only keeps good food out of the landfill, but also saves the average American famil