Collect everything the average American kid throws away in the school cafeteria over a single year, pile it on a scale, and you’d be looking at roughly 39 lbs of food. That’s about what a typical 4-year-old weighs.
Multiply that across the country, and school food waste adds up to an estimated 530,000 tons every year—an alarming amount of uneaten sandwiches, rejected fruit, and unopened snacks.
That makes food waste difficult to dismiss as somebody else’s problem. “If you eat food, you’re part of this whether you like it or not,” says Lauren Click, founder of the nonprofit Let’s Go Compost, which runs food-waste programming in more than 600…
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