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this web page shows and tells the number of food waste people consume and waste a year . not only do they explain the waste of food but also the resource to produce those food much as money energy and time

By Colquhoun's estimate, his field can fill about 3 million 8 ounce cans of carrots. He is bothered that see a considerable amount get left behind. According to the University of Arizona studies in 2004, they estimate that food waste might be closer to 50 percent.

In this article has shown how much it cost for food waste in America. Such as in farm, restaurant, household and so much more. Then, the NRDC report argued that they can do nothing about it because they could not push customer to buy food that they do not want.

This article gives you a good description of what composting is. It talks about how some restaurants put too much food on ones plate and how composting helps the food not go to waste.

There are several companies who have dedicated themselves to helping resteraunts reduce the amount of food they waste each day. The project began in 1996 and is still being used today. This article shows the true benefits of doing more than simply just letting the food go to waste. We all have the power to make a difference it our choice to really do something with that power or not.

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This is a great article for someone who wants tips on how to minimize food waste. The author gives crucial info on how to save food.

Food waste is a big problem for Americans today. We can solve this problem by doing a few things watching and limiting what we buy and eat, saving what we do not finish, and ignoring sale by dates because they are not expiration dates. Using methods like these we can successfully reduce food waste from one pound a day per person.

this article talks about some ways we can prevent wasting food and auctually how fast food can go bad

This article laid out for ways people can prevent food waste. The first was plan meals for the week. Often times if you plan you won't waste. The next is scrape your scraps. Save your scraps of veggies and fruits and freeze them. In the future you can use them for different meals. Preserve your foods. This includes canning, dehydrating, and or pickling foods that you won't eat all of. Portion size is a big way on not wasting food. Start with small amounts of food a person can always go back for seconds. Last is compost items and use it for soil.

In this article it discusses food waste in America with supported research. It also includes the global food waste and the impact the food waste has on our environment,

A study showed that around 45 percent of all food ready for harvest in the United States never gets eaten.

This article says how much food is not eaten in america each year. Also, it talks about that much money America spend each year just to dispose food waste.

This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.

To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.

I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.

It seems that Bloom is a major source when it comes to food waste because this is the second article that quotes him. This article gives statistics and information everyone should be aware of. They also give this great example of how America has a great obesity problem and that they say to chuck away the last few slices of that pizza instead of eating them!! Wrong! maybe we should just not buy the pizza if we do not need to eat it! The examples just show how we don't really think twice before throwing food away.

Food waste ranges from 25 - 75 percent, depending on the food type, that amounts to 1.3 tons of edible food that's tossed each year. The food industry creates up to 30% of the world's annual carbon emissions. That's not it, it creates more emissions once it's discarded to landfills.

going to the store while hungry could be a bad thing. Because we would waste money on food we do not need

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.

Yet another city in California that is getting involved in the new er of waste management. Shows different ways that waste is being used in their city to benefit and not harm it.

This website is about a global effort call Unilever Food Solutions North America. They are coming together to help people be more aware of food waste. They are going to give people resources, tools, and skills to help them not waste so much food. They are helping mostly the foodservice industry tackle this problem of food waste.

This article talks about the statistics of food that is not eaten in America. Where we go wrong in our daily food tendencies. The decrease in food waste if we adjust our waste habits is also referenced here.

This site is neat, blogs about food waste, experiences with reducing food waste, food waste prevention tips, how it effects our environment and economy, thats not it though, theres more on this site. Real life experiences, tips and great information that helps us with out topic.

This website gives a couple of general facts about food waste to start out. It then goes gives out information and the concept of a couple groups and organisations that are made specifically to help food waste.

This article explains how when we waste food we are basically wasting money, energy, land and water. It also says different ways we can start saving food, recycling, or compose food that is not wanted.

This is an article about the effects on food waste. Not only is it harming the hungry but also the earth.

this article explains more problems with food waste in the ecosystem

We all tend to cook too much over the holidays to have a nice table spread, well the problem is we all tend to cook to much everyday and buy too much food when we really do not need that much. This article gives you tips to do, not only for the holiday season but maybe something we can try everyday!

This article talks about a program that K-12th grade schools can implement through out their school. It gives examples on how this program has already been implemented and changed in schools. It also talks about how the program can be implemented in a school. This program is a great way to teach children and staff different ways to create a sustainable school.

I think that is pretty cool that they have the kids get involoved as well, because like you said it is a great way to teach kids about sustainability and maybe some could even educate their parents. "However, most school districts don't have an award-winning nonprofit to implement a comprehensive Zero Waste program for them." (Schumper & Dietz). This comment made me think, are Zero Waste programs very exspensive if it is not through a non-profit group, and is that why other schoos do not implement this?