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this article discusses the intro to food waste and says that people should care more about food waste because of the food prices inflating. Also it talks about how the government should issue some goals to reduce food waste in America.

The average american family wastes about 1,200 pounds of food annually. Residents who throw away food will have a "scarlet letter" type notice on their trash can. This red sticker will let others know that this person was throwing away good food. This is a good way to try and stop us from throwing away so much good food.

It is absolutely horrible to hear about the fact that we are dealing with a hunger problem and yet there is tons of food wasted each year.

I think companies should do a better job of labeling expiration dates. Some products say 'use by...' but instead I think it would be a better idea to label food as do not use past this date. It would help diminish food waste nationally.

This article explains the amount of food that is wasted each year in the US. If Americans could reduce some of what they waste, it could help feed millions of families throughout the country.

This Website advocates food recovery, they go over food waste facts. They also have a sign up pledge for individuals that pledge to save food.

A new way to reduce waste!

40% of food wasted each year? That's crazy. But the app sounds like a good idea....especially useful for finding new recipes to use up all the food that was bought.

This article explains the economical, social, and environmental benefits of reducing waste. It explains the benefits businesses could take from reducing food waste.

This website summarizes over the benefits of conserving food from waste. The list of benefits are environment, economic, and social.

America has plenty of food in the country to feed all of its people. The amount of food that gets wasted each year is taking away from families in need that could use that food to survive.

This Website "Feeding America" fights hunger by advocating food prevention. This site goes over tragic facts and stories of people that didn't have anything to eat. they also give links in ways that you can help.

Solutions to reducing food waste.

I think it's really great that college students are coming up with a way to help reduce food. Giving food to charities would help in having the homeless eat and also not wasting good food.There needs to be more organizations like this worldwide.

This article talks about 10 facts about sustainability. How we need to grow our own food because now a days the food is being genetically modified and the government is subsiding with it. My favorite way of sustainability was to eat animal products because "organic" foods in marketplaces may be mono cropped.

The site is a ministry run by society of St. Andrew which operate programs to salvage any food. The website also goes over facts and statistics of food waste.

in 2012, Americans threw out over 35 million tons of food! This statistic is 20 percent more than what we threw out in 2000. Approximately a third of all food produced worldwide never gets eaten. This is not the biggest problem though, food landfills produce methane. This is at least 20 times more lethal than carbon dioxide.

The USDA is encouraging manufactures retailers and community's reduce, recover and recycle food. They are also challenging to from a group of 400 partners by 2015.