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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

Food waste in the United States is 40 percent of food. A study from the Natural Resources Defense Council did a study on this and said that the average american family throws out $2000.00 worth of food a year.

This short article talks about a recent study that shows Americans throw away about 40% of the food in the US. Also it shows that there has been a 50% increase in food waste since the 1970's.The Natural Resources Defense Council recommends that goals be set to help reduce food waste.

On this website there is information on how this company PepsiCo is committed to protecting earth by using natural resources. It also has sections that further explain how to manage packaging waste, water waste, and climate change. 

I think this is a good website, it's informative with the videos and the short information section below them.

This webpage gives us a a lot of information on ways that PepsiCo is being self sufficient to help our eviromental sustainability. This is a really good choice Erick.

This article talks about how wasting food also causes the waste of energy and water. It gives a graph of the total percentage of food wasted and food consumed. 

40 percent of food in The United States today, goes uneaten. They talk about statistcs and what should and can be done to avoid food waste.

A quick overview of how much energy and resources are wasted with food waste. It goes over how Europe is already making efforts to improve food waste and why America should follow suite and how it can benefit our country.

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 website gives you an overview of how much food we waste. It also presents methods on how to compost.  They have posted recent projects and articles related to food waste management.

I think this is a helpful website for those who are interested in finding archives, blogs and articles about saving food waste. It also gives resources that are useful to research like books and movies.

This Online website dissuces articles on engineers using sustainable resources. This also gives better options on how to better our envoirment.

Original: Food waste management is a central element within all foodservice operations, large or small. Dealing with food waste is a time, energy and space consuming process, generally considered as non-profit generating, however, kitchen food waste, managed and correctly handled, can be a cost-efficient, sustainable and environmentally important resource.Efficiently managing food waste is an acknowledged strength of Meiko UK Limited. Paraphrase: Food waste handling solutions and systems for a cross-section of foodservice establishments. Meiko UK food disposal equipment is a sustainable and environmentally-friendly answer to reducing kitchen waste to landfill sites. The Anaerobic Digestion system is like a vacuum that transports food waste through a pipe to a tank. After that, it is taken to a composting facility and used as a renewable energy source.

U.S. citizens have found ways to use their resources faster than they can be replaced. This being based on their every day routines, and interactions with food; one being that they waste approximately 4.6 pounds of trash a day. Environmentally speaking this is not headed in a good direction for America.

This piece of writing discusses how Nestle continuously strives for improving environmental performances. Their goals include: The topic, their commitment and their short-term goals. Some of their topic they focus on are like water, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency, biodiversity, waste and recovery and compliance.

This article is about reducing food waste by rising the price of the food. Tackling food waste could solve many of the sustainability such as linkling food losses and waste to food inflation, food security, resource inputs adn climate change.

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.

This is an interview by Ira Flatow. Dana Gunders whos is an agriculture project scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco and the author of American Wasteland Jonathon Bloom are being interviewed. They talk about the topic of food waste.

This is an interview done by Ira Flatow. She interviews Dana Gunders and also the Author of the book we are currently reading, Jonathan Bloom. They cover the idea and concept of food waste.

The food waste is starting to affect our environment. With the food being wasted daily, the need for more food is strict and the more access to food, the more people are becoming obese. Food is energy and we need energy to survive.

This article discusses the amount of freshwater and oil that's being consumed by food waste. The article also discusses the mathematical model to find the amount of freshwater and oil being consumed.

This website is about a global effort call Unilever Food Solutions North America. They are coming together to help people be more aware of food waste. They are going to give people resources, tools, and skills to help them not waste so much food. They are helping mostly the foodservice industry tackle this problem of food waste.

This website/article is about how Americans can recycle paper. It tells how it helps to recycle paper and what is done with the paper. Also it gives information on how to recycle paper. It gives other information on how schools can start programs on recycling, local recycling collectors by where a person lives. This website is very helpful for recycling paper and helping people do it.

this article talks about some ways we can prevent wasting food and auctually how fast food can go bad

This article laid out for ways people can prevent food waste. The first was plan meals for the week. Often times if you plan you won't waste. The next is scrape your scraps. Save your scraps of veggies and fruits and freeze them. In the future you can use them for different meals. Preserve your foods. This includes canning, dehydrating, and or pickling foods that you won't eat all of. Portion size is a big way on not wasting food. Start with small amounts of food a person can always go back for seconds. Last is compost items and use it for soil.