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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.