QUIZ: Do you know the shocking truth about food waste?

Wasting food is easy. It usually goes a little something like this: something catches your eye at the market, finds its way into your grocery basket, and then sits on your refrigerator shelf for a month beyond its expiration date. Or maybe, you make too much food and forget to eat the leftovers. We’ve all been there.

But when we zoom out from our kitchen pantries and look at the food industry as a whole, the food waste statistics are stunning. We’re talking more than a billion tons of food being wasted every year.

Thankfully, organizations like Food Waste Reduction Alliance, Feedback Global, and Food Recovery Network are working to reduce the problem. But we can all empower ourselves with knowledge about the facts to make smarter decisions.

Take our quiz to put your food waste knowledge to the test.

How did you do? Did you find your results surprising?

For more information on this important topic, check out:

The 3 worst food waste myths you need to stop believing now