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Ashley Bussey

Americans Waste Enough Food to Fill a 90,000-seat Football Stadium Every Day -- What Ca... - 0 views

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  • Ashley Bussey on 18 Sep 12
     
    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.
Aissata Traore

Global FoodBanking Network: One Billion Hungry and More Than a Billion Tons of Food Wasted - 0 views

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  • Aissata Traore on 05 Feb 12
     
    We are wasting food while billion of people are hungry in the world. This article educate us about the important of giving food to those who want it.
claudecollopylee

Eye opening statistics on food waste | Guy Goes Green - 0 views

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food waste amount and pollution statistics

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  • claudecollopylee on 26 Sep 12
     
    Regarding food waste. The average american throws away 25% of food we prepare and we waste 96 billion pound of food a year. we produce twice as much food as need per person which ends up costs the our county 1 billion dollars in food diposal. ****account for the largest human related source of methane which is a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. food statistics**** the average houshold of 4 wastes around 590.00 a year in food waste by throughing it out
Yin Hongsarmon

Wasting The Food That Feeds You - 0 views

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  • Yin Hongsarmon on 03 Feb 13
     
    Timothy Jones, a food waste studier, explained on the news that the total of food waste in the U.S was $155, $55 billion from household, $45 billion from restaurants and $35 billion from farm. He added, American family should cut down the expenses for grocery because most of the family bought food and don't eat them.
Yin Hongsarmon

How the U.S. manages to waste $165 billion in food each year - 0 views

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food waste america waste How the U. S. manages to waste $165 billion in food each year

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  • Yin Hongsarmon on 03 Feb 13
     
    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.
gaelan76

Wasted Food - Science Updates - Science NetLinks - 0 views

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  • gaelan76 on 04 Sep 12
     
    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.
gaelan76

Food waste is a problem; what are solutions? - JSOnline - 0 views

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  • gaelan76 on 04 Sep 12
     
    Americans throws away 470 pounds of food each year. Americans trash 40% of our food supply, valued at about $165 billion, every year.
michael campanaro

America Wastes Forty Per Cent of Food Supply, says Report - 0 views

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  • michael campanaro on 05 Sep 12
     
    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.
michael campanaro

Dumpster-Diving: Should You Try It? | Rodale News - 0 views

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  • michael campanaro on 05 Sep 12
     
    The ESTS, Environmental Science & Technology estimates that 96 billions of food that we throw out equals 185 million barrels of oil. The deepwater horizon spewed an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oild into the ocean during a drilling accident. Now that's a lot of food being thrown away.
gaelan76

Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food - New America Media - 0 views

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  • gaelan76 on 04 Sep 12
     
    we as Americans end up throwing away 40 percent of our food. That is estimated $165 billion every year. the average family of four throws out as much as 2,200 dollars of food every year
Sarah Chavez

Cutting America's food waste to help address hunger: Editorial | NOLA.com - 0 views

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  • Sarah Chavez on 07 Sep 12
     
    This another article on the study the Natural Resources Defense Council conducted. "$165 billion worth of produce and meat end up in landfills evry year." That is an astounding number. It is also mentioned that more grocery manufactures and groups have started to donate more food instead of throwing it away.
Sarah Chavez

Discovery Channel :: News :: Food Waste Epidemic in America - 0 views

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  • Sarah Chavez on 07 Sep 12
     
    This article is from 2004. It states that durig an "extensive" 8 year study they found that $75 billion of food waste is being tossed out each year. It also states that if Americans knew how to use food more "wisely", and buy more "wisely" they wouldn't waste so much of it. They suggest freezing leftovers to save them and eat them later.
Sarah Chavez

America's 'Supersized' Energy Waste - 0 views

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  • Sarah Chavez on 07 Sep 12
     
    They compare the amount of food waste that is thrown out each year as the "equivalent" of throwing away 350 billion barrels of oil away. It says Americans could save about 2% of its total energy consumption in a year if we would be more careful about food waste.
Arthur Parra

Food Waste Denounced as Almost 1 Billion People Go Hungry - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Arthur Parra on 06 Feb 12
     
    We sit here wasting hundreds of tons of food every year. This talks about how we have people starving while we carelessly throw out food every day.
leonel lopez

Food Waste in America - "The Big Waste" - Addoway - 0 views

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  • 5 Billion eggs are thrown to trash every year - just because they are the wrong size, or their color may be slightly off.  You read that right -- 5 BIILLION EGGS!!  How many omelets could be made for hungry children from 5 BILLION Eggs
  • leonel lopez on 06 Feb 12
     
    This is a page where it has a small document where people can live comments about food waste. The discussion is based on a program that was aired on food waste and there are some statistics.
leonel lopez

How Bad Is Food Waste In America? - 0 views

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  • According to a government study, an estimated 27 percent of food is available for consumption out of the tons that ended up in the landfill
  • 1997 on food waste and determined 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food
  • leonel lopez on 06 Feb 12
     
    In this page the author from our book, American Wasteland, its mentioned and some statistics from our book. Its pretty similar to the things that we are studying and seen before. The waste of food on restaurants, supermarkets, etc.
Ashley Bussey

ClimateChangeImpactofUSFoodWaste.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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  • Ashley Bussey on 18 Sep 12
     
    The study of analyzing the climate change and economic impacts of food waste. The analysis shows that cutting back food waste exceeds 55 million metric tons per year, nearly 29% of annual production. Food waste produces life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of about 113 million metric tons of CO2e a year, it's equivalent to 2% of national emissions, and costs $198 billion.
Ashley Montoya

Food Waste: Americans Throw Away Nearly Half Their Food, $165 Billion Annually, Study Says - 0 views

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  • Taylor Burkhart on 18 Sep 12
     
    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.
  • Ashley Montoya on 01 Feb 14
     
    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.
Yin Hongsarmon

How Can We Reduce Food Waste? - 0 views

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shared by Yin Hongsarmon on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Yin Hongsarmon on 19 Mar 13
     
    This article is discussed that billion tons of food are wasted because of lack agriculture and it is reducing Earth's water suply. To reduce food waste is to challenge of sustainably meeting our food demand.
Troy Amstutz

Food Waste - 0 views

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  • Troy Amstutz on 01 Feb 13
     
    Americans waste 40 percent of all food. Meaning we approximately throw 165 billion dollars down the drain and with all that money gone to waste comes major consequences.
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