Annually, 1/3 of ALL food is wasted and ends up in our landfills. That's over 40,000,000 pounds per year; 300 pounds per person per year.
20% of ALL food going to the landfill can be composted which leaves a large amount that can be rescued and redistributed through programs like our MOM and our Community Food Banks.

In 2021:

33.8 million people lived in food-insecure households.
8.6 million adults lived in households with very low food security.
5.0 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure.
521,000 children (0.7 percent of the Nation's children) lived in households in which one or more child experienced very low food security.
For more information, see Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Frequency of Food Insecurity.
Food Insecurity by Household Characteristics
The prevalence of food insecurity varied considerably among household types. Rates of food insecurity were higher than the national average (10.2 percent) for the following groups:
All households with children (12.5 percent).
Households with children under age 6 (12.9 percent).
Households with children headed by a single woman (24.3 percent) or a single man (16.2 percent).
Women living alone (13.2 percent) and men living alone (12.3 percent).
Households with Black, non-Hispanic (19.8 percent) and Hispanic reference persons (16.2 percent; a household reference person is an adult household member in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented).
Households with incomes below 185 percent of the poverty threshold (26.5 percent; the Federal poverty line was $27,479 for a family of four in 2021).