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This article is how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

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.

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 gives you tips on where to place specific foods in your fridge. This helps you get the longest lasting shelf life out of your foods. " waste not want not" utilizing your groceries to the fullest.

This talks about how food waste can produce harmful methane gas. It also talk about how this wastes can cause health problems.

"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

The average household wastes about 14 percent of their food. The NIDDK researched that in 2009 a quarter of our water consumption and over 300 million barrels of oil go into producing and distribution and ends up in landfills. Now that's a waste.

The study of analyzing the climate change and economic impacts of food waste. The analysis shows that cutting back food waste exceeds 55 million metric tons per year, nearly 29% of annual production. Food waste produces life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of about 113 million metric tons of CO2e a year, it's equivalent to 2% of national emissions, and costs $198 billion.

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

This article talks about how sustainable energy meets the needs for the present, but does not effect the sustainable energy for the future. It also talks about how researchers are exploring different ways to produce cleaner more efficient ways to produce better energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuel.

this website was easy to understand and interesting all at the same time. It gives a run down on the technology that is being applied now to help the the sustainability within our environment. This is also gives a sneak peek into what technology that they plan to improve on and introduce hopefully within the near future.

This article was easy for me to understand, I really like how the article explained "sustainable energy" with terms that I know and isn't too far complex for the readers.

I thought that this article was very interesting because it relates to the 10 myths as well. The article is about when bigger countries, such as the U.S. and Europe who decided to move to sustainable growing techniques. The one thing wrong wtih sustainable growing is that we have less to export to poorer countries in need of low cost mass produced foods.

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.

This article is more in a diagram form. It tells you were all the produce starts and gives you the different steps. At each level it gives information about different food waste or the resources we are wasting in America. This table/article is neat to look at if you're a visual person.

A really cool and smart thing that can make waste useful two times over. Not only by making it into a compost but also by using it to produce electrical energy. Europe is already using these techniques and it is nice to know that we, America, are following suite.

All the waste that has been going on only means that more energy is lost in the form of food than is stored in all the nation's offshore oil and gas reserves. Food waste isn't just harmful to our environment but we're also buring more energy than we can produce.

This article is mainly talking about a change that a food industry alliance is trying to do with grocery manufactures associations. They have started trying to find local restaurants, stores, and food processors to cut those transport times and extend the life shelves of produce. This committee has begun the research step to try and help America with food waste and taking their first steps.

this article talks about a solution that is in the making that will reduce food waste.

We waste a tremendous amount of energy daily on transportation of food. This is due to consumers buying foods and not utilizing it. We waste in harvesting, food, money and transportation.

Comparing research between fresh food and frozen food. Data is given on how much emission is produced from each frozen meal that is made. Also data on refrigerant emissions are given as well.

Good points are brought up about the main reason for hunger, being wasting food. the people that suffer most from hunger are children. The countries that waste the most are the rich ones like America.

This article and chart shows how things are being thrown out now and how many Americans are malnourished. We drink less water as well compared to years ago. Also, it shows how there are 24 moillion acres of forests destroyed to make room for more food waste.