US Food Waste

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/091125_waste

For ex­am­ple, food waste is now es­ti­mat­ed to ac­count for more than one quar­ter of the to­tal freshwa­ter
con­sump­tion and more than 300 mil­lion bar­rels of oil per year rep­re­sent­ing about 4 per­cent of the to­tal U.S. oil con­sump­tion.

The re­search­ers found that pe­r-capita food waste has pro­gres­sively in­creased by about 50 per­cent since 1974, reach­ing more than 150 tril­lion Calo­ries year­ly. Pre­vi­ous cal­cula­t­ions are likely to have un­deres­ti­mat­ed the waste by as much as 25 per­cent, the group said.