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"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

The online article explains the environmental, economic and social benefits from food conservation. furthermore ways to reduce landfills.

The article discuses ways in how chefs and implying how you can save more food by eating animal parts that most don't. For example cooking food with an animals extremities.

This article is about a family who experiences shortage of food also obesity at the same time. It tells you a brief explanation how can obesity and hunger coexist.

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.

This article talks about Malaysia switching to incineration because there's not enough space for landfills. The article also explains the amount of energy received from food waste and how its not that much compared to the cost.

(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?

Good points are brought up about the main reason for hunger, being wasting food. the people that suffer most from hunger are children. The countries that waste the most are the rich ones like America.

This is a page where it has a small document where people can live comments about food waste. The discussion is based on a program that was aired on food waste and there are some statistics.

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This is a great article for someone who wants tips on how to minimize food waste. The author gives crucial info on how to save food.

Food waste is a big problem for Americans today. We can solve this problem by doing a few things watching and limiting what we buy and eat, saving what we do not finish, and ignoring sale by dates because they are not expiration dates. Using methods like these we can successfully reduce food waste from one pound a day per person.

This article talks about different well known colleges using different methods of sustainability. Different colleges have only used food from the local area, composting waste, energy saving techniques through out the college campus, etc. This article goes goes through each college and tells you about how the college has change to become more sustainable.

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.

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) I always knew smartphones were handy, but reducing food waste is an all new level of smart! In July of 2012, about 222 millions tons of food was wasted. When solutions were running thin, someone broke though and added the world of technology to our world of waste. An app was created. Yes! Even your smartphone reduces waste now. The app that was created goes based off of household size, recipes, shopping lists, and meal preferences into one to help save Mother Earth from becoming a dump. Read this article to see how the diversity of people is compatible with the newest Smart Solution for food waste!

The costs of food waste is enormous, it adds up to every one in five bags of groceries goes in the trash. We can make a difference by saving leftovers and managing how much money you spend on groceries. Remember that saving food from the dump starts with you

Oddly enough consumers wont buy odd looking produce. This is a huge reason why food is wasted in America,this article shares reasons how to prevent this from happening.

This PDF file gives an insight about the different levels that food is lost. It gives statistics and impressive facts about food waste. For example "Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also 25 percent of all freshwater."

This article breaks down different facts about plastic waste. It talks about the process of recycling plastic and benefits of recycling plastic. this author gives statics on how much plastic is wasted and recycled. He also talks about what what they do with plastic after it is pick up from curb-side or drop off centers.

this talks about how much money is wasted annualy on food that is wasted.

this artile goes into more detail about what we have read so far in the book. it explains how landfills are releasing large quanties of methane.