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Cover of the Action Kit

Download the Action Kit

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Download the Activity Guide

These videos aim to inspire youth across North America to reduce food waste and help save our planet.

#ShrinkFoodWaste

These videos will walk you through some of the activities in the Food Matters Action Kit!

Let’s Shrink Food Waste Mountain (FMAK Activities # 5 and #15)

Tale of the Forgotten Food (FMAK Activities #4 and #14)

Day of the Ugly Food (FMAK Activities #3 and #13)

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Posters and booklets

Our posters and booklets introduced activities in the kit, in Spanish and Mayan, to children and youth in communities in the Mérida pilot area in the Yucatán (Mexico).

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(This material is only available in Spanish and Mayan)

Cover of the booklet in Spanish
Cover of the booklet in Spanish

Each year, the food we waste costs the North American economy $278 Billion US dollars and could have fed 260 million people!

This is what else we waste when we waste food:

  • 39 million m3

    of landfill space, equivalent to

    13 football stadiums

    gets used up with our food waste each year

  • $1.9 billion

    US dollars in wasted landfill tipping fees

  • In the United States alone, over

    32 million hectares
    of wildlife habitat

    is lost to farmland
    to grow food that is never eaten

  • Enough water to fill

    7 million
    Olympic-sized swimming pools

    (18 Billion m3)

  • Enough energy to power

    274 million homes

  • 3.9 million

    tonnes of fertilizer

  • 193 million

    tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted needlessly, the same as driving

    41 million

    cars continuously for a whole year

  • 39 million m3

    of landfill space, equivalent to

    13 football stadiums

    gets used up with our food waste each year

  • $1.9 billion

    US dollars in wasted landfill tipping fees

  • In the United States alone, over

    32 million hectares
    of wildlife habitat

    is lost to farmland
    to grow food that is never eaten

  • Enough water to fill

    7 million
    Olympic-sized swimming pools

    (18 Billion m3)

  • Enough energy to power

    274 million homes

  • 3.9 million

    tonnes of fertilizer

  • 193 million

    tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted needlessly, the same as driving

    41 million

    cars continuously for a whole year