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Methane gas traps about 23 times more than heat in our atmosphere than CO2. Landfills are accounted for 34 percent methane gas that is emitted in the U.S. There are plenty of ways to reduce food waste nd it would save you money!

In this article it explains how there are children in need to at least one meal per day and we waste tons of food each day. Another good point on how to decrease food waste is to harvest and crop your own vegetables and fruits. This article also explains how if you have some food left over you can try to juice it, or chop it and be able to eat it.

This is a great website for everyone to see because it can help us see that there is people out there trying to make a change. Farm share is an organization that recovers food from being thrown out. They repack and send the food to shelters, churches, and other organizations that help the hungry.

There is some good information of how much land filled food waste there was in 2011. How much of the food that we throw away ends in landfills. The benefits reducing food waste and ways to reduce wasted foods.

This article talks about how much food waste there is and tells us what it takes to sustain a healthy environment.

Food waste costs you money and we are all guilty of it, but there are ways to make sure all the food you buy ends up on the table.

Ira Sager the journalist of the this article talks about how much money is wasted because of food waste. She goes on to say how many pounds of food is wasted. The number one thing that is thrown away is food scrapes, not plastic or paper. Those food scrapes we could be composting. She stated that wasting food is a cultural habit. We are use to doing it and it is culturally acceptable. Breaking this awful food waste habit then there is going to have to be an adjustment in our society. Also she talks about how many people think the government needs to get involved and do something about food waste.

Dana was a town girl and in very difficulty family. However, after she has traveled through Southeast Asia has changed her life to see how less food waste there was. When Dana got into College, she started to take action to make American waste valuable.

According to the author, food were wasting everywhere and every many ways. For instance, there was 1.6 million tons of food waste because of the food appearance. However, the BBC article seem wasn't care much about the waste.

As the article, there are many ways that food waste affect our environment. It could caused climate change, air pollution, lifecycle and water. For example, food waste could lead to a gas that 25 time stronger than heat in the atmosphere or the breakdown of food waste in landfill could destroy our groundwater.

In this website a article is written by Grace Interlichia, the article explains that people often mistake sustainability for giving up living pleasures such as desired foods, homes and cars. But in reality its not giving up what people loath but instead creating a better way to live by fuel friendly cars and sustainable farming.

This article gives readers insight to our aim of living style sustainably. For example transportation, and farming. There are also other recommended articles to read relating to this topic.

while this is a good article it gives room for argument.

A father in Northern Minnesota brought home over a dozen large sized melons to his daughters house. There was not any room for these melons but he brought them anyway.

In this video it explains two methods food can be recycled. The two methods are Anaerobic Digestion and In-Vessel Composting.

this web site shows you a video on how they recycle food waste .there are two ways ;one is in vessel composting and the other is anaerobic digestion.

This article talks about how we, as Americans waste up to 40 percent of our food. It also talks about 5 projects that people are working on in order to help fix this problem, and how you can help.

this artile give the reader 9 ways they can cut down on food waste. it also talks about what they can do with there wasted food insted of throwing it away

this article explains how americans feel bad about wasting food but they still do it anyway.it also talks about the percentages about how many people feel bad about wasting there food

A cheaper alternative for farmers is using human waste as fertilizer. This is something that has been done for centuries but in today's society is frowned upon.Urban dwellers wont go hungry with this fertilizer tactic, and there are benefits.

A visual is given based on the economy and its land and food production. A cause of America's larger food waste is the growing population. There is plenty of data to support the population growth too.

This article talks about how wasting food also causes the waste of energy and water. It gives a graph of the total percentage of food wasted and food consumed. 

40 percent of food in The United States today, goes uneaten. They talk about statistcs and what should and can be done to avoid food waste.

A quick overview of how much energy and resources are wasted with food waste. It goes over how Europe is already making efforts to improve food waste and why America should follow suite and how it can benefit our country.

How habbits will be hard to break and will take time. Followed by wasting habbits and how they affect us.

According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Currently 50 million households suffer from food insecurity, meaning that family members cannot always meet their basic food needs. .