An enormous amount of food is wasted unnecessarily in Canada every year. This waste has turned out to be a negative impact on the country's economy and environment. Majority of food is wasted in the country occurs to be from the consumer level. Every month, residents in the city of Toronto throw out 17.5 million of food. The waste of food in the country also comes from over production. In Toronto, each household produces about 275 kilos of food waste each year. In the country 51 percent of the food waste comes from the households, 18 percent of the waste has come from the packaging and processing and 11 percent of the waste comes from retail stores.