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An estimated forty-five to fifty percent of food is discarded each year by Americans.That makes it an economic problem for everyone. In a country known as the "throw away" society we are destroying the planet with methane, mountains of food waste that could of been eaten, and wasting money that could of been saved.

This article covers the idea of warehouses and how they contribute to the idea of food waste. They also give again, They general run down about food waste and again some ideas anyone can do in their homes everyday to help prevent the issue.

In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.

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.

Learning about sustainable food and the problems with factory farming can be daunting at first, but, with a little effort, you can quickly learn enough to make the safest and wisest food choices for you and your family.

This site gives some important facts about food waste. It give facts about how food waste impacts the world.

This article gave really good facts on how food waste does not only affect our financial situation but our environmental as well. By expanding chemicals such as Fertilizers and Pesticides. As a result it begins to creat more Methane; one out of most harmful chemicals affecting greenhouses gases.

This website talks about how food waste isnt just a financial issue but a chemical issue and variety of facts. Environmentally, food waste leads to wasteful use of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides, and more fuel used for transportation, and more rotting food in this process.

Americans waste up to 40% of the food that makes it onto grocery shelves, into their kitchens or that crosses their plates, which makes the potential consequences of the ongoing drought even more painful.That waste costs close to $165 billion per year. Indeed, the average American family of four throws out about $2,275 in food every year,

SustainableBusiness,com explains the issue of food waste in America with facts and details. Then gives two reasons on how address the problem. It also lists another website for data concerning food waste problems in America.

In this article by Ronald Bailey he discusses the problem and gives an average of how much food is being wasted; he also gives supported statistics from researchers across the nation. He also discusses the reason why Americans waste food and includes why it needs to be stopped.

One of the issues we waste food is because the wealthier we get, the more we unconsiously spend money at restaurants and at home and then waste food. The issue of wasted food is not on the radar of Americans.

This article is how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

This articles mentions a few tips on how to reduce food waste. It also talks about how it is important to understand the date labels on food items. 

This article gives a brief explanation on why we should recycle plastic,glass,paper and not food. It also exaplains the issues that can go wrong when burrying scraps of food in oxygen-free enviorments.

This article is about food waste in restaurants. Restaurants and other foodservices are one of the most recognizable areas of food waste in America.

We always think about how much food we waste at home, but how much is wasted in restaurants? Restaurants waste more than households do, its shocking.

In this website it talks about the effects of fossil fuels and pesticides. It also mentions what we can do to help our environment .

This is a pretty good article. It is sad how they mentioned that chemicals which were banned in the U.S. and Europe for being toxic are now starting to be used in developing countries. It is sad to know that there are companies out there worried more about their pockets of "one"(the company) rather then the health and lives of thousnds of people.

Dana Gunders, at N.R.D.C. she is a project scientist who specializes in food and agriculture. She once stated "This issue has received very little attention in the U.S.," regarding Food Waste. Although some of the bare minimal such as, energy, land, and fresh water all take part in the production for the American consumers.

A director named Michael Hewett, of a Publix Super Markets Inc., Suggests that packaging can be used to fix the food waste crisis in america.

I thought this was very interesting. Author Christopher Koetke speaks about the imoprtance of food sustanability, most imoprtantly he mentions that countries around the world are teaching about the importance of food waste. Finally everyone has agreed that food sustainability is a big issue and we have to take action today for the future generations.

We live in a country with so much food, yet there are people who are starving and can't afford to eat. We buy and abundance and waste it all. How is that fair?

This article talks about how hunger is such a issue but yet we waste so much food. Their are so many people dying of starvation and lack of nutrients but yet we waste so much food.

This website advocates and helps promote food waste and hunger. Feeding America you can find ways to donate, assist or read heart felt story's on hunger.

This article talks about how much schools waste. Tribune went into Chicago public schools to see just how much they were wasting. The results were 334 pounds of uneaten food per day. Often times children aren't allowed to take uneaten food out of the cafeteria because it falls into liability and health issues for the school districts then. Chicago schools districts is trying to come up with a way to not have as much food waste but not have liability and health issues on their hands.

This article is about how much food is wasted in schools. How can schools cut back on their food waste?

Fast food restaurants are known to be the number one cause of litter. It is a problem when it comes to recycling because of the styrofoam.

WHO; World Health Organization. Food security is a complex sustainable development issue, linked to health through malnutrition, but also to sustainable economic development, environment, and trade. There is a great deal of debate around food security with some arguing that: