A study released by a Toronto-based group that works to reduce food waste, says more than half the food produced in Canada is wasted.
Second Harvest, the group that commissioned the study, used hard numbers from the industry rather than estimates to get a clearer look at how much is wasted.
The study, says the average Canadian residence wastes more than 17-hundred dollar worth of food and that a third of the losses could be recovered.
In total, almost 50-billion dollars of usable groceries wind up in landfills and a quarter of that waste occurs during manufacturing and processing.
The report suggests better co-ordination between farmer and processor along with changes to how we purchase food would go a long way to limiting waste.