Thesis

"Food waste is an incredible and absurd issue for the world today," said Jose Lopez, Nestle's head of operations.

Why? Because while we throw away yesterday's sandwich "when we feel like it", children all over the world die of hunger and are malnourished.

 In 1980, food waste accounted for less than 10 percent of total waste; today, it makes up well over a fifth of the country's garbage. This statistic really serves to illuminate our own troubling behavioral patterns-because the first steps to change it come from our own homes. We must alter our "wasteful" mindset and begin to make the necessary changes in our habits and our diets in order to truly make a change in food waste statistics not only nationally, but on a global scale as well.