When most people think about food waste, they picture throwing away an entire meal or cleaning out a refrigerator full of spoiled groceries. That wasn’t my experience. For the month of June, I tracked every single food item I threw away. I expected to uncover one or two major instances of waste. Instead, I found something much more common: small, daily moments of waste that barely seemed worth noticing. A handful of spinach, half an avocado, some cilantro that wilted before t