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There are misconceptions about csots and benefits. Research that had been done shoes that a lot of companies, large and small, have been reluctant to pursue environmental sustainability. One myth is that there is no profit from sustainability initiatives. And companies that have taken the initiative are profiting from it.

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Food waste opportunity and challenges

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A resolution passed at the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg designated 2014 as the "European Year Against Food Waste." With the resolution came a lofty goal: cut food waste in half by 2025, with help from awareness campaigns and other initiatives.

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. .