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The use of technology to reduce waste in landfills. Gives you a calculation of the monetary equivalent of the food you waste in your company. Gives a preview of how their products work.

Eating all the food on your plate and how you can help in the consumption wasted each year, and what you can do about it. Save oil, water , time , and your wallet. This article pertains to these key terms and the energy that people constantly waste.

Americans push technology and sometimes their wallets to the limit to pursue energy frugality. But if you examine your plate, you could easily save fuel. The power that it takes to grow food, move it all over the country, process it, sell it, store it and then eventually scrape it into the trash is a major problem in the U.S.

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This site gives some important facts about food waste. It give facts about how food waste impacts the world.

This article gave really good facts on how food waste does not only affect our financial situation but our environmental as well. By expanding chemicals such as Fertilizers and Pesticides. As a result it begins to creat more Methane; one out of most harmful chemicals affecting greenhouses gases.

This website talks about how food waste isnt just a financial issue but a chemical issue and variety of facts. Environmentally, food waste leads to wasteful use of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides, and more fuel used for transportation, and more rotting food in this process.

This is an article regarding the mistake that many of us do when reading the expiration dates we throe away good food. I am certainly to blame for this mistake. Reading this might help us save food.

Barbara Hartman is a registered dietician who lives in rural West Virginia. She grew up appreciating the value of food. Barbara grew up appreciating food as a little girl, because her grandfather lived during the depression. Now because of growing up conserving food, she has started programs to prevent food waste.

Pope Francis tells an audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, that "Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry," he said.

Some more information that can be read on food waste and a little on how it effect price of some foods.

The article focuses on all the areas of food loss. It give stunning facts about the amount of food that is wasted my industrialized and developing countries.

This are 10 tip to prevent food waste at home. Also a great idea to get family members involved. The 1st tip is don't go shopping on an empty stomach. I do this often and it always turns to be bad idea!

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) Ever thought as a college student you could make a difference? Well a group of Students from Pomona's College started to try to save food from being tossed out. They would package it and send it to a shelter to help those in need. 3.7 million adults struggle to put food on the table, but 1.5 million tons of food get wasted and thrown away. Now there is something wrong with that. Donating food to the need has become a solution, but what if your willingness to help out gets turned down? One person turned donation food donations because the fear of rotten food and health code. How are we suppose to help food waste if others are squashing our solutions?

USDA and EPA try to reduce the amount of food waste. Having supports such as Rio Farms, Unilever, General Mills and a few others.

This article explains a group of people that take food from stores that is getting thrown away and hand it out to the hunger. I find this very important because instead of the food being wasted someone is taking a stand and giving to the need instead of the dump. So we are killing two birds with one stone in this process.

This paper talks about how so many kids take a packed lunch to school but almost all of it ends up in the trash. This because kids want to eat the foods that are bad for you or look cool compared to healthy boring stuff that ends up in the trash. What kid wants to eat healthy.

Food waste reduction, have you ever given it any thought. In this article there are several ways to reduce food waste. Ever thought Mama's homemade Casserole saved the planet? Well it does. Home cooked meals was only just one of the solutions to reducing food waste. Cutting back on the waste that is produced all comes down to how we live at home. Composting instead of garbage disposing or planning weekly meals can be small steps to a bigger solution.

Has food waste gone unnoticed? Food waste has become one of those things we do daily without any guilt of what we are doing. In "Stepping Up to the Plate to Reduce Food Waste" wants us to do just that. Nearly half of our food ends up in the garbage costing around $165 billion. About $160 pounds of food wasted and dumped in the garbage. This article recognizes food waste as a problem and wants to bring back all the old slogans you used to see. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Lets make the world a better place.

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 web page is a video on where all your food waste goes. it shows how it can be re used to grow new foods and tells you why food waste is bad .

This website shows how science can help solve food waste with their solutions

This website give the basics of food waste. It also provides alternatives to do instead of throwing away food. It gives an insight of the harms that food waste causes to our environment.