Tips From Experts to Reduce Food Waste This Holiday Season [Video]

With the holidays in full swing, there are more occasions for eating and drinking to excess, which gives us multiple opportunities to curb our food waste.

Food waste is an enormous global problem. According to a 2024 report from the United Nations Environment Programme, households throughout the world wasted an average of more than one billion meals per day in 2022. Meanwhile, 783 million people were impacted by hunger and one-third faced food insecurity.

When we waste food, we also waste valuable resources.

“When we throw away food, we’re also throwing away the land, water, and energy used to produce that food,” said Pete Pearson, vice president of food loss and waste at WWF.

Agriculture accounts for almost 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and 70 percent of freshwater use, reported WWF.

“Agriculture is vital for human survival, but its expansion is the leading cause of stress …