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Methane gas traps about 23 times more than heat in our atmosphere than CO2. Landfills are accounted for 34 percent methane gas that is emitted in the U.S. There are plenty of ways to reduce food waste nd it would save you money!

All the waste that has been going on only means that more energy is lost in the form of food than is stored in all the nation's offshore oil and gas reserves. Food waste isn't just harmful to our environment but we're also buring more energy than we can produce.

if we banned food waste from landfills, the united states would lower the methane gas that is produced from the food waste. if we keep the landfills the methane gases would increase.

Food waste is the cause of 23 percent of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. which is bad for the earth, and everyone living on it.

It seems that Bloom is a major source when it comes to food waste because this is the second article that quotes him. This article gives statistics and information everyone should be aware of. They also give this great example of how America has a great obesity problem and that they say to chuck away the last few slices of that pizza instead of eating them!! Wrong! maybe we should just not buy the pizza if we do not need to eat it! The examples just show how we don't really think twice before throwing food away.

In this article statistics compare how much food is wasted between countries all over the world. Also, methane is a greenhouse gas that is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide.

Food is biodegradable so whats the problem? This article explains the danger in food littering.

This article talks about how much it costs the US to get rid of the food waste. It also talks about how food waste releases methane, which is more harmful than carbon dioxide. 

This talks about how food waste can produce harmful methane gas. It also talk about how this wastes can cause health problems.

This article shows some facts on todays food waste. You can also sign up to pledge in reducing food waste.

This is has many food waste facts. They not only pertain to AMerica's food waste, but all over the planet. These facts can be very useful in our paper.

This article talks about how the amount of food we waste is enough to feed people who are malnourished. It also talks about how fruits and vegetables are not accepted because they do not meet the supermarkets standards. It also mentions how school lunches get thrown out and how we cause gas emissions by growing food we do not eat.

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.

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

With all the food that is being wasted, it goes to the langfills, which in case creates a powerful greenhouse gas by the name of methane. The waste isn't just occuring when we throw it away after we're done with it. Waste happens before it even hits our dinner tables.

Kids as young as 13 are trying to make a difference because they realize the damage methane gas can cause. If kids are trying to make a difference, I think we can learn from this and try to fight waste in our own ways too.

As the article, there are many ways that food waste affect our environment. It could caused climate change, air pollution, lifecycle and water. For example, food waste could lead to a gas that 25 time stronger than heat in the atmosphere or the breakdown of food waste in landfill could destroy our groundwater.

This paragraph was about how customers of farm's markets and grocery stores in city of Pittsburgh supported Maggie Henry' fight for drilling natural gas that affected Pennsylvania counties.

this is a short article that talks goes into detail about how the average american family waste over 2,000 dollars of food a year and it also talkes a little about the gas methane

this artile goes into more detail about what we have read so far in the book. it explains how landfills are releasing large quanties of methane.

The average person throws away about 20 pounds of food each month, that adds up between $28-$43. The United Nations has predicted that the U.S. will need about 70 percent more food to feed the projected population, in 2050, with how much we waste today. We're not only wasting food,we're also wasting water, energy, chemicals, packaging, and gas transporting discarded food. All of this is taken to produce and distribute the food and where does it end up? In the landfills.

http://www.nrdc.org/living/eatingwell/files/foodwaste_2pgr.pdf. short informational facts regarding food waste in America and its finicial impact. it was shows the precentage of what types of food to wastes . it also explaines different ways to prevent food waste and why it is important to reduce the amount of food we waste

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.