In a country where too many go hungry, too much food is going into the garbage. It’s part of a larger problem of waste by companies, for whom throwing away inventory is too often the cheapest choice.found that nearly half of all food in Canada is wasted every year. Of that waste, 41.7 per cent was avoidable – much of which could have been redirected to people in need – with an estimated value of $58-billion.
Over the past two years, reporters from Quebec news outlets Les Coops de l’information exposed what retail waste can look like. In early 2023, they went behind a Couche-Tard convenience store to do dumpster diving – digging into trash in search of food.was shocking: hundreds of recyclable aluminum cans and plastic bottles, still filled with soda, milk and water, among other drinks. All were bound for landfills. They found the same thing throughout the province.