Not that much food waste. Make home made food every single day for 3 meals a day. I made a chili and that required bean cans, tomato sauce cans, diced tomato can, hamburger Styrofoam and plastic wrap, onion peels, pepper stems. We have jars, tuna cans, salmon cans, mayonnaise jars. We do use a lot of paper plates. All meat comes with packaging. I froze the leftover chili for future use, I have a freezer full of leftover lasagna, spaghetti sauce, soups. Deli meat comes with plastic packaging. Don't throw the plastic grocery bags into the garbage. We get tons of catalogs that go into recycle, we get a daily newspaper goes into recycle. Some plastic juice jugs go into recyle, clean jars and cans go too. We use foil to line our cooking pans to avoid spill overs and they end up in garbage. Dog poop in garbage. Paper towels in garbage. Just boiled a chicken and plan to reuse the broth it was boiled in and cook up the chicken bones and scrap in the crock pot. Bones will end up in the garbage. Dog food cans end up in garbage. Dog treat boxes go into recycle. Yes, sometimes I clean out the fridge of little containers of this and that of odd ball food scraps into the garbage. Paper napkins into the garbage. All kinds of peels from potatoes, squeezed lemons, orange peels, onion peels, garlic peels go into garbage. I don't know but it all seems to add up!