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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.

This article talks about the food wastage from an environmental perspective and where wastage happened. It also explains what food wastage causes, and give three general levels where action is needed, these three are reducing food wastage, recycling and recovery.

In this article it explains all the negative sides of food waste, how it harm the climate, water, land, and biodiversity. It also explains how the food waste starts from the bottom, poor harvest, distribution and consumptions. This article gives you an overall picture of how bad is food waste.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, natural gas, and coal have increased dramatically, leaving consumers and the industrial and service sectors looking for ways to reduce energy use.