For Restaurants, Food Waste Is Seen As Low Priority - 0 views
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shared by Andrea Manginelli on 06 Feb 12
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Blake Damron-Gurule on 06 Feb 12An estimated forty-five to fifty percent of food is discarded each year by Americans.That makes it an economic problem for everyone. In a country known as the "throw away" society we are destroying the planet with methane, mountains of food waste that could of been eaten, and wasting money that could of been saved.
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kelsey giebink on 09 Sep 12This article talks about how much food we waste on Thanksgiving and in every day life. Talks about the different studies that have been done on this topic and the shocking results.
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Erick Alderete on 11 Sep 12In this article they talk about how half of what we produce in america is wasted. It also talks about how farmers grow a lot of product in order to get paid more and if it comes out bad they just leave it to rot in the fields.
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Sarah Chavez on 24 Sep 12Nearly 50% of all food ready for harvest gets thrown away, according to a study done by the University of Arizona! Sometimes the crops can't be saved due to mother nature, but in most cases food waste happens because we have been trained to only look at the perfect looking food.
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Brianna Regnier on 31 Jan 14This article covers the idea of warehouses and how they contribute to the idea of food waste. They also give again, They general run down about food waste and again some ideas anyone can do in their homes everyday to help prevent the issue.
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Andrea Manginelli on 15 Feb 14In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.