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The number of food wasted worldwide is huge. Our uneaten fruits and vegetables add to the total amount of food waste. Another, factor that adds to food waste is edible food being thrown out because of the self-life date. If there was a way for packaging to extend the life of opened food it would help cut down or food waste. Reports show financial, managerial and technical restrictions in harvesting, and the different climates in facilities have more to do with food waste.

Dana Gunders, at N.R.D.C. she is a project scientist who specializes in food and agriculture. She once stated "This issue has received very little attention in the U.S.," regarding Food Waste. Although some of the bare minimal such as, energy, land, and fresh water all take part in the production for the American consumers.

Melisa Johnson was curious about online work, she tried it one time, she enjoys it. Now she is making more money than her previous job.

40 percent of the food being thrown away in the US equals up to 165 billion dollars.  That's a lot of money, if we saved a little more maybe we could help get our selves out of a recession.

goverment report regarding food waste from 2010. regarding the amount of food wasted that is generated. in 2010 34 million tons of food waste was created. food waste accounted for 14% of total municipal solid waste. 33 million tons was just thrown in landfills . food waste isn't just with people but with business too

In this article has shown how much it cost for food waste in America. Such as in farm, restaurant, household and so much more. Then, the NRDC report argued that they can do nothing about it because they could not push customer to buy food that they do not want.

Food waste is the cause of 23 percent of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. which is bad for the earth, and everyone living on it.

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.

"Society of St. Andrew" This site talks about food waste in America, Global Food Waste, Environmental impact of U.S. food waste. This site also has links to other informational studies and reports and are helpful with this topic.

This website was about food waste in America which included everywhere such as households, restaurants and so on. American wasted 12 percents of food and only three percents was recovered so the rest of them disposed in landfills.

In this article it gives reasons why so much food is waste in America. After looking at all the food waste and searching through the food that is wasted they noticed most of the people don't know what they throw away.

This website is about Americans throwing away 165 billion dollars worth of food; shown by studies and statistics. It is also about how all Americans waste food including consumers and restaurants.

The NRDC have recently reported that most Americans discard 40% of food per year. As for our average American families ends up throwing away $2,275 annually in food a year. Little as 15% reduction in losses of food waste could save enough to feed 25 million Americans a year.

This article talks about environmental ricks but also some of the economical ricks of food waste. It also put both of these topics in both a global and US based perspective.