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This article expressly greatly on our food waste, its also think with the author of "American wasteland", which we are familiar with. U.S economy continues its downward spiral, and this article tells us a little on that.

This article gives a clear picture of just how much food we waste a day. It talks about how Americans fill a football stadium each day with the amount of food we waste and how that negatively effects the environment. It also touches on how we are a society that went from having many farmers and a greater appreciation for the work that went into growing the food to not knowing or caring where it came from and how much we waste.

Jonathan Benson states that there is enough food waste in America to fill a football stadium and has been increasing over the years. He also talks about the cause of all the food being wasted in America and gives supported reasons.

This article talks about how wasting food also causes the waste of energy and water. It gives a graph of the total percentage of food wasted and food consumed. 

40 percent of food in The United States today, goes uneaten. They talk about statistcs and what should and can be done to avoid food waste.

A quick overview of how much energy and resources are wasted with food waste. It goes over how Europe is already making efforts to improve food waste and why America should follow suite and how it can benefit our country.

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.

a web site in UK regarding food waste . The web site gives facts about food waste in the UK and how to prevent. Per the website 50%4 of the food thrown away in the UK comes from homes ( aroundthat 7.2 million tons of food waste from the home)

This article talks about the food wastage from an environmental perspective and where wastage happened. It also explains what food wastage causes, and give three general levels where action is needed, these three are reducing food wastage, recycling and recovery.

In this article it explains all the negative sides of food waste, how it harm the climate, water, land, and biodiversity. It also explains how the food waste starts from the bottom, poor harvest, distribution and consumptions. This article gives you an overall picture of how bad is food waste.

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.

In this article it explains how there are children in need to at least one meal per day and we waste tons of food each day. Another good point on how to decrease food waste is to harvest and crop your own vegetables and fruits. This article also explains how if you have some food left over you can try to juice it, or chop it and be able to eat it.

This article talks about how Americans waste so much food from the grocery stores to restaurants and they still think of something else that is going to hurt their pockets.

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.

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. .

The food waste is related to the global warming because the decomposing material from the food destroy the landfill. Also, in this article the auther tell us to avoid wasting food...

This website gives information from the start of food waste and shows many ways on how to reduce it. Steps to save money by cutting back on what you really need to buy.

"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

This site is based off of Jonathan Blooms book "American Wasteland". This site just bullets main points on the book and the importance of American Wasteland.

Shows Accurate statistics on where we are in terms of food waste

The actual web site on american wasteland. based on his book. This includes information about theauthor and the book, tips of preventing food waste. informaiton on food waste. it also personal articles from others regarding ways they are cutting food waste

This website shows all types of articles obtaining to your topic on food waste. They have tags set up so you just click on it and read all articles differating from bussiness, food waste tracking, all the way to how the government is acting upon all of its 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.

This article is how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

This pages gives information on how Americans waste half of what they purchase.

the statistics given in here are just terrifying just like all the other statistics. i find really smart on how to prevent the disposal of food. when fruit goes bad it could be turn into smoothies instead of throwing it away.