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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.

Food recovery is retrieving edible food that would go to waste and giving it to those in need. The food that is picked up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. Things like day old bread and things that are past the "sell by" dates but still in great shape are donated.

This article talks about the food wastage from an environmental perspective and where wastage happened. It also explains what food wastage causes, and give three general levels where action is needed, these three are reducing food wastage, recycling and recovery.

In this article it explains all the negative sides of food waste, how it harm the climate, water, land, and biodiversity. It also explains how the food waste starts from the bottom, poor harvest, distribution and consumptions. This article gives you an overall picture of how bad is food waste.

In the article, they talk about how UC Berkely is one out of 19 colleges and universities in the region to sign up for the food recovery challenge. They discuss what they're doing and what they plan on doing to prevent waste by composting, recycling and etc.