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This website is about Americans throwing away 165 billion dollars worth of food; shown by studies and statistics. It is also about how all Americans waste food including consumers and restaurants.

The NRDC have recently reported that most Americans discard 40% of food per year. As for our average American families ends up throwing away $2,275 annually in food a year. Little as 15% reduction in losses of food waste could save enough to feed 25 million Americans a year.

the statistics given in here are just terrifying just like all the other statistics. i find really smart on how to prevent the disposal of food. when fruit goes bad it could be turn into smoothies instead of throwing it away.

this artile give the reader 9 ways they can cut down on food waste. it also talks about what they can do with there wasted food insted of throwing it away

This article discusses the percentages of food that are being thrown out when it could feed families. A Seattleist blogger came up with a concept not only reducing food waste, but also losing weight to save the environment.

In this article it is call "food recovery." If Americans aren't going to eat all their food why not feed it to the animals or make it into compost. The amount of food we waste could feed about 4 million Americans a day. A lady does a different challenges and one was giving people the challenge of losing weight and reducing food waste. She has the group post their measurements and how much food they have thrown away each week.

This article explains a group of people that take food from stores that is getting thrown away and hand it out to the hunger. I find this very important because instead of the food being wasted someone is taking a stand and giving to the need instead of the dump. So we are killing two birds with one stone in this process.

This website give the basics of food waste. It also provides alternatives to do instead of throwing away food. It gives an insight of the harms that food waste causes to our environment.

This is an article about a man who finds edible food in dumpsters and even feeds it to his family. Grocery stores throw away goods that are far away from being expired. You could also watch a short video about it.

Food waste is any substance raw or cooked food. Anything that is discarded and thrown away.

The top 5 supermarkets that waste food. Some of these corportations donate trucks filled with edible ready to eat goods.On the other hand some refuse to participate and prefer to throw it away. The perfecty edible food gone in the trash and into landfills.

The large amount of carbon food print consumed by the amounts of food thrown away everyday This article also shows ways to help change your view point on household food waste by reducing different cooking habits.

590 billion pounds of food is grown every year. Out of that 590 billion, 160 billion is wasted. On average, a person creates 5 pounds of trash every day. Out of what we throw away, 12 percent is edible.

One of the biggest reasons we throw away food is we over buy it and that's how it gets wasted. Veggies and fruits are the most wasted because some of them dont grow to the standards that need met or some other reasons.

This article explains to us about how much money we waste by throwing food in the trash. It also explains the percentages and overall money we spend as a country on food we throw away.

The average family throws out around $2,275 in food annually. And for most Americans around $40 a month, or 33 lbs of food, ends up in the trash.

This is an article regarding the mistake that many of us do when reading the expiration dates we throe away good food. I am certainly to blame for this mistake. Reading this might help us save food.

The world learned some devastating truths about itself this past week. Not only did we learn that 9 out of 10 of us throw away food long before it's spoiled, we also found out that all that rotting food is the third largest contributor to climate change.

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) Ever thought as a college student you could make a difference? Well a group of Students from Pomona's College started to try to save food from being tossed out. They would package it and send it to a shelter to help those in need. 3.7 million adults struggle to put food on the table, but 1.5 million tons of food get wasted and thrown away. Now there is something wrong with that. Donating food to the need has become a solution, but what if your willingness to help out gets turned down? One person turned donation food donations because the fear of rotten food and health code. How are we suppose to help food waste if others are squashing our solutions?

the journey from the farm to the store to the dinner table, nearly half of America's food never gets eaten. most households throw away about 50 billion dollars' worth of food each year.

Americans throws away 470 pounds of food each year. Americans trash 40% of our food supply, valued at about $165 billion, every year.

40 percent of the food being thrown away in the US equals up to 165 billion dollars.  That's a lot of money, if we saved a little more maybe we could help get our selves out of a recession.

First class chefs Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli tackle one of the most massive problems in food today - waste! Divided into two teams, with only 48 hours on the clock, they are challenged to create a multi course gourmet banquet worthy of their great reputations, but with a big twist; they can only use food that is on its way to the trash.

This websites show a video of four chefs who are given the challenge of making a meal from food that was going the be thrown away.