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This article is about companies sucha as subway attempting to be sustainbale. These compaies are wanting to be the most environmental friendly.

The use of technology to reduce waste in landfills. Gives you a calculation of the monetary equivalent of the food you waste in your company. Gives a preview of how their products work.

This article talk about realizing how much food waste one family waste. A husband and a wife sat down one day a calculated how much they were wasting of food. They finally but together a budget and a challenge not to waste food. If you plan meals and how much food you need it often becomes easier to not waste as much. Too many Americans go to the store without planning or budgeting food and this then results in food waste.

How habbits will be hard to break and will take time. Followed by wasting habbits and how they affect us.

According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Currently 50 million households suffer from food insecurity, meaning that family members cannot always meet their basic food needs. .

This article talks about the costs of food and its problems on this world. The article also explains the life cycle inventory and what its used for calculating.