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Everything you want to know about the new Healthcre bill. This is the official White House website that provides lots of good information. Learn about the new law, how it effects you, myths & facts, and news related to this bill. 

In the U.K. there are working on new techniques on what to do with our food waste. They are engineering new methods on how to convert food waste into reusable energy.

McDonalds is opening up a vegetarian McDonalds due to the fact that these people in India can not eat meat because of their religion.  This is the first of it's kind in the franchise. The store will serve the vegetarian items currently sold in indian restaurants and the chain will likely develop some new items as well.

McDonald's is opening their first ever vegetarian restaurant in India this year. Because of religious reasons, none of the McDonald's serve beef in India. They are adding a new spin to this idea and are offering completely meat free restaurants. In the next 2 years they are hoping to have more than 200 in India.

This article talks about different well known colleges using different methods of sustainability. Different colleges have only used food from the local area, composting waste, energy saving techniques through out the college campus, etc. This article goes goes through each college and tells you about how the college has change to become more sustainable.

Start the pile with a layer of coarse material like branches and twigs to allow air flow to the pile. For a carbon source, add 6 inches of leaves and other woody materials. For a nitrogen source, add 2-3 inches of grass clippings, kitchen wastes and garden wastes. Mix these two layers to speed up decomposition and then cover with 2 inches of dirt to control odors. Dampen the pile with water as new layers are added or more frequently if the weather is dry. The pile should be concave in the center to prevent runoff of water. The moisture content is sufficient when the surface of the pile glistens. To speed up decomposition, mix/turn the pile once a week and periodically sprinkle it with water to keep it moist. When the interior of the pile is no longer hot and the material has broken down into dark, crumbly soil, the composting is finished. The process usually takes 3-6 months.

In this article it's saying that 20 pounds of food is wasted each month for each of the 311 million americans. That amounts to $1,350 to $2,275 a month.  That's what most people make in a month. Also throwing away cereal that isn't all the way gone, just to clear or make room in your pantry.

This article talks about statistics in food waste in America

going to the store while hungry could be a bad thing. Because we would waste money on food we do not need

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.

This article is about how college students haved become vigilant about sustainability. With Internet research, they are investigating energy use, food purchasing, investments, transportation, and waste disposal. They are pushing administrators to approve new projects.

A good site that shows information provided by the American Government. Has different kind of information such as: what kinds of environmental wastes (including food), food organizations nearby ones community,laws and new regulations to improve waste management.

Yet another city in California that is getting involved in the new er of waste management. Shows different ways that waste is being used in their city to benefit and not harm it.

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This article talk about how much food is wasted. it als gives some fact on pounds of food a person wastes a year. also what percent of fish is waste.

This article explains the problem of food waste in America and how we can reverse it. He explains that groups of researchers are figuring out how to use our wasted foods and turn them into things we can reuse.

Portable pulverizer gives food waste the thrashing of a lifetime: article on a Nevada based business that has introduced a new product to help restaurants, grocery stores and farmers with reduction of their waste. the Machine " The machine "shreds, rips, bruises and pulverizes" food waste, allowing more of it to fit within a receptacle, and preparing it for easy composting

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) I always knew smartphones were handy, but reducing food waste is an all new level of smart! In July of 2012, about 222 millions tons of food was wasted. When solutions were running thin, someone broke though and added the world of technology to our world of waste. An app was created. Yes! Even your smartphone reduces waste now. The app that was created goes based off of household size, recipes, shopping lists, and meal preferences into one to help save Mother Earth from becoming a dump. Read this article to see how the diversity of people is compatible with the newest Smart Solution for food waste!

This article talks about how we can reduce food waste to create a more sustainable environment.

This article talks about how much schools waste. Tribune went into Chicago public schools to see just how much they were wasting. The results were 334 pounds of uneaten food per day. Often times children aren't allowed to take uneaten food out of the cafeteria because it falls into liability and health issues for the school districts then. Chicago schools districts is trying to come up with a way to not have as much food waste but not have liability and health issues on their hands.

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 website introduces many environmental topics. this particular one talks about cigarettes and their nasty butts. most people just toss on the ground. this article introduces ideas to prevent that.