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StopWaste.Org - a website set up to encourage and educate others on food scrap recycling. it explains reason why we should recycle food scraps and types of food that should be recycled. the website is geared to the state of CA but has several good ideas that could be applied in any states

People don't realize how serious food waste is. While our country wastes enough food to fill a football stadium, other countries are fighting for scraps. 

This article gives a brief explanation on why we should recycle plastic,glass,paper and not food. It also exaplains the issues that can go wrong when burrying scraps of food in oxygen-free enviorments.

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.

In Washington State the Department of Corrections and The Energreen State Cooege started a partnership to reduce the food waste in the prisons. How you may ask? The Monroe Correction Complex are using worms to cut and reduce the food waste inside the complex. Five million worms can process 10,000 lbs of food scraps per month; reducing the costs more than 25% and saving 60,000 a year on food waste disposal.