Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.

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It shouldn't be a surprise that fast food chains have lots of leftover food. But what exactly happens with all those leftovers?

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The reality is that most of us have opened the crisper drawer only to find a sad collection of wilted lettuce and soft tomatoes. 9 million tons or 31% of the food supply in the United States alone. S.

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...