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In London food waste is around 600,000 tons of food. One main reason is people are afraid to ask for doggy bags, there is a certain shame for walking out of a restaurant with one. However in an effort to decrease food waste they are giving out cardboard boxes to customers and decreasing food portions to meet the needs of consumers.

There are ten simple thing that everyone can do to help make sure that we can really be sustainable for the future decades to come. In order to do so we need to understand where our food is really coming from, and what power we really do have as a consumer.

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.

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.

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 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

These date that are shown on food items are only simply suggestions by the manufacturer as when the food item was at its peack quality, and not labeled as when it is unsafe to consume. Food Mareketing Instiute did a survay on the confusion over eperation dates. As a result of this surevay they were able to discover that nine out of then Americans lead to needlessly food and is being thrown ayway.

The Writer in this website goes over the idea of food waste and understands that many people like to brush it off, if it was no big deal. The article describes the affects of food loss and simple ways to prevent it.

This article is about the idea of using and incorporating alternative ways of transportation into our lifestyle. Also shows the consumer barriers and attitudes towards the concept of this.

Learn how sustainable farms raise healthy animals using practices that benefit the environment and bolster local economies.

Like that it is talking about feeding animal the food that they normally would eat and they are grass feed making it more beneficial for the animal and the taste of what the animals are going to be used for better and more nutritious.

This is an interesting article to learn what is behind our meat. It is great that they are actually fed what they normally would, and that they don't deprive them of that.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, natural gas, and coal have increased dramatically, leaving consumers and the industrial and service sectors looking for ways to reduce energy use.