On average, 1,300 pounds of food waste per employee per year is sent to the landfill. About 3.25 billion pounds of food, in 2008, was sent to the landfill by supermarkets. Changing our shopping habits can help our local grocery stores cut back on sending food to the landfill.
The top 5 supermarkets that waste food. Some of these corportations donate trucks filled with edible ready to eat goods.On the other hand some refuse to participate and prefer to throw it away. The perfecty edible food gone in the trash and into landfills.
In this page the author from our book, American Wasteland, its mentioned and some statistics from our book. Its pretty similar to the things that we are studying and seen before. The waste of food on restaurants, supermarkets, etc.
This is has many food waste facts. They not only pertain to AMerica's food waste, but all over the planet. These facts can be very useful in our paper.
This article talks about how the amount of food we waste is enough to feed people who are malnourished. It also talks about how fruits and vegetables are not accepted because they do not meet the supermarkets standards. It also mentions how school lunches get thrown out and how we cause gas emissions by growing food we do not eat.
Food recovery is retrieving edible food that would go to waste and giving it to those in need. The food that is picked up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. Things like day old bread and things that are past the "sell by" dates but still in great shape are donated.
The epa is asking supermarkets to use generaters to significantly cut down on the food waste that they put out each day and month. The epa put a Hierarchy up to show how this goes, Source Reduction, Feed Hungry People, Feed Animals, Industrial uses, Composting, incineration of landfill.
This article talks about all the different wasys we can generate food waste from your house the prisons and schools. It also gives was we can do to stoop food waste.
This article talks about food waste being caused by two groups; large scale generators and small scale generators. It explains the two groups and explains what we can about the food waste.
How a super Market gives food it can no longer use to a resterant. From there the resterant will create a menu. Every day there is a new menu from food that is still good but not possible to sell.