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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.

The rate of landfill filling up and how waste keeps on increasing. One landfill is closed a day because of the habbits the world has. How much of it could be saved?

Wealthy countries wasted food because they tended to buy too much of it. Nevertheless, some countries were making this situation more seriously to reduce food waste at the consumer level in markets.

On average, 1,300 pounds of food waste per employee per year is sent to the landfill. About 3.25 billion pounds of food, in 2008, was sent to the landfill by supermarkets. Changing our shopping habits can help our local grocery stores cut back on sending food to the landfill.

this article explains how we are making mountains out of landfills. how america is wasting 40,000 to 100,000 dollars of food out of ever 1 million spent.

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.

Information on our nations landfills and the process of waste management. The effects of waste and how it is being delt with.

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.

This article talks about how recycling is improving. It also states why it is good for our landfills also. Stating what others may believe, like recycling causes pollution and is not good for our landfills etc.

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 another article on the study the Natural Resources Defense Council conducted. "$165 billion worth of produce and meat end up in landfills evry year." That is an astounding number. It is also mentioned that more grocery manufactures and groups have started to donate more food instead of throwing it away.

This article is about the waste that goes to dumps and landfills in 2007. As you can see, food waste is pretty much the biggestest contendor, other than plastic.

This image shows a landfill full of garbage. Everything and anything that has been throw away. It mentions that despite the cost of food rising, food waste still hasn't diminished it actually has grown.

Quest Recycling Services is a company that not only recycles food waste from piling in landfills, but reduces it by feeding it to animals and uses it as energy. They recycle everything in the five food groups.

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.

This article explains how wasting food leads to wasting water. Reducing food wastes can help the needs of 500 million people. It also talks about how filling landfills with wasted food only contributes to global warming.

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.

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...

An 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.

This 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.

In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.