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Regarding food waste. The average american throws away 25% of food we prepare and we waste 96 billion pound of food a year. we produce twice as much food as need per person which ends up costs the our county 1 billion dollars in food diposal. ****account for the largest human related source of methane which is a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. food statistics**** the average houshold of 4 wastes around 590.00 a year in food waste by throughing it out

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

This article talks about the how much restaurants waste. It talks about how they don't realize how much food is being thrown away. One restaurant owner took away the garage can to teach the employees about not wasting food. They saved a lot of food because every time they have to throw something away they have to ask. It also talks about the odor that comes off of dumpsters. It is then take to landfills where the garbage breaks down into methane to damage peoples health. Its not only the producers who are wasting its also the consumers.

A major problem we have today is that food waste is a low priority for restaurants and nobody is doing anything about it.

This article explains that restaurants find food waste a low priority. This happens because as a restraunt you always have to be prepared if its slow or busy. If its busy then great you wont have any food to be thrown out but if its slow you have to throw away that days production.

Help is given on ways to buy and prepare food to help you save food and money. The Environmental impact goes to waste as well when we waste food. The way we pack our foods needs to be more Green and environmentally friendly as well.

Learn how sustainable farms raise healthy animals using practices that benefit the environment and bolster local economies.

Like that it is talking about feeding animal the food that they normally would eat and they are grass feed making it more beneficial for the animal and the taste of what the animals are going to be used for better and more nutritious.

This is an interesting article to learn what is behind our meat. It is great that they are actually fed what they normally would, and that they don't deprive them of that.