14 Screenshots That Prove Just How Much Food We Waste Every Single Day

    The amount of food that's thrown out in restaurants and supermarkets at the end of each day is actually so upsetting.

    1. These buckets and buckets of rice thrown out at the end of a shift:

    A restaurant's kitchen has seven metal server tubs full of white and brown rice

    2. This trash can that a restaurant fills with noodles every single night:

    An industrial-sized trash can is nearly halfway full of just noodles

    3. This 200 pounds of food thrown out from a college kitchen:

    Another large trash can full of food, with a caption that says this is from one kitchen in one night on a college campus that has dozens of similar kitchens

    4. This dumpster full of fruit that was only on shelves for a single day:

    The dumpster is so full of fruit that it's literally overflowing, with peaches and bananas spilling onto the ground

    5. These bags of donuts tossed out on a daily basis:

    Four large plastic bags full of donuts, with a caption that says this is what they throw away every day after a shift at Krispy Kreme

    6. These pastries that were basically made just to fill up a trash bin:

    The bin is full of bread and pastries, with a caption that says they were all made less than an hour ago

    7. This pile of perfectly good bread at the supermarket, destined for the landfill:

    A huge pile of plastic-sealed loaves of bread sits in the middle of an aisle; the pile is so large that it takes up much of the aisle

    8. This single afternoon's worth of uneaten, unsold pizzas:

    Approximately 40 boxes of pizza are stacked on top of each other

    9. These prepackaged sandwiches that could've easily been given to employees instead:

    A trash can full of factory sealed sandwiches, with a caption that reads "they can't pay a living wage, but I'll waste hundreds on food waste"

    10. This perfectly good produce that it pains me to look at:

    A trash can filled to the brim with fresh fruits and vegetables

    11. These pies that got put in the trash because they weren't completely ~perfect~:

    A group of six pies being thrown away because the packaging they're in was dented; the pies themselves were unaffected

    12. These salads that are probably only a day past the expiration date:

    Prepackaged salads, lettuce, and other produce fill up a large trash bin

    13. These snacks that the manager insisted on tossing because they weren't "fresh":

    A variety of packaged goods, including fruit, sandwiches, and drinks, stacked up on a counter to be thrown away; there are so many of them, the counter is completely full

    14. And finally, these bins with $50,000 worth of ice cream down the drain and melting in the sun:

    The back of a trash truck shows it's completely full of sealed ice cream containers

    H/T: r/mildlyinfuriating