A large percentage of this food waste is perishable or unwanted stuff in the store. Produce gets ugly and, though it's still usable, nobody picks it over the fr

A large percentage of this food waste is perishable or unwanted stuff in the store. Produce gets ugly and, though it's still usable, nobody picks it over the fresher stuff. Milk gets close to its sell-by date and people pick fresher stuff. Someone overstocks something and a manager pitches it. Something doesn't sell. Some of this can go to food pantries, but a lot just turns into methane in landfills. As for produce, much perishes en route as well, or is abandoned in the field as unsellable, or reaches the market where produce managers are shopping for their stores and it doesn't sell. Changing our consumer habits is only going to get us so far. Not that it isn't worth doing, but that 50% figure isn't due to families buying two bags of potato chips and pitching one.