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The top 5 supermarkets that waste food. Some of these corportations donate trucks filled with edible ready to eat goods.On the other hand some refuse to participate and prefer to throw it away. The perfecty edible food gone in the trash and into landfills.

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.

To help reduce food waste you could recycle your spare food and make different food dishes. Another, thing you could do is save your leftovers in a container where they are visible that way you can see the edible food you have. Remember it is still safe to use food past their expiration and "use by" date these dates refer to quality not safety. Lastly, you should shop for items you know you will use soon instead of items you do not need that way they don't go to waste.

The number of food wasted worldwide is huge. Our uneaten fruits and vegetables add to the total amount of food waste. Another, factor that adds to food waste is edible food being thrown out because of the self-life date. If there was a way for packaging to extend the life of opened food it would help cut down or food waste. Reports show financial, managerial and technical restrictions in harvesting, and the different climates in facilities have more to do with food waste.

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.

This is an article about a man who finds edible food in dumpsters and even feeds it to his family. Grocery stores throw away goods that are far away from being expired. You could also watch a short video about it.

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.

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. .

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that Americans waste 30 percent of all edible food produced, bought, and sold in this country, although it acknowledges that this figure is probably low.Part of the problem is the heterogeneous nature of food waste -there is no single culprit, just many diffuse sources that add up to a slow and steady bleed on the economy and the environment. This site tells us what we already know, just some random helpful information in there that is fun and good to know.

Everyone is responsible for food being wasted the biggest contributors being cafeteria's, restaurants, and grocery stores. The first steps to wage war on food waste are to buy conservatively and make just enough instead of to much. Also to embrace the three R's reduce, reuse, and recycle.