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This article suggests different strategies to limit our population. Heavily taxing everyday consumer items may help lower population. If the population lowers than the likely hood of lowering the impact is low.

A visual is given based on the economy and its land and food production. A cause of America's larger food waste is the growing population. There is plenty of data to support the population growth too.

The article talks about global problems related to chronic hunger, increasing population size, and the environmental impact of agriculture. Along with this articles it gives you solutions for thes problems. The author suggests individual to be sustainable.

In San Fransisco the backyard discomposing had been promoted for a few years but the population has increase and not a lot of people have backyards now. The city now provide people with three cans to dispose three different materials. One of the cans is for organics another for food waste =) and the last one for food-soiled paper.

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