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This article gives a brief explanation on why we should recycle plastic,glass,paper and not food. It also exaplains the issues that can go wrong when burrying scraps of food in oxygen-free enviorments.

This article is how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

Melisa Johnson was curious about online work, she tried it one time, she enjoys it. Now she is making more money than her previous job.

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. .

Not only does wasting food hurt our wallets but now we find out that it waste our energy too. The Texas University estimates that if America would stop wasting food altogether(by some sort of magic) that they would save 2 percent of its annual energy!!!

This particular article is about our food waste is also wasting energy at the same time. It gives very specific statistics about the foods we waste.

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.

The amounts of fruit,vegetables,orchards, and food in general and how researchers find distrubing to see all this food go to waste in california. The belief that the problemsof food waste start in the field of the farmers growing it and why it is the problem due to the retailers hard to pass requirements.

Grocery stores and restaurants still wasting food that they know to be unsafe. It is said in this article that Safeway doesn't donate food items that are not fit for consumption. In this case it can be a health problem to the consummer of these food.

State students have studied that with the yearly food waste, it can fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles bout 35 times. How much is that? It's more than 6 million tons. There is a hunger relief program that most grocery stores donate to.

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!

Regarding food waste. The average american throws away 25% of food we prepare and we waste 96 billion pound of food a year. we produce twice as much food as need per person which ends up costs the our county 1 billion dollars in food diposal. ****account for the largest human related source of methane which is a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. food statistics**** the average houshold of 4 wastes around 590.00 a year in food waste by throughing it out

Original: Food waste management is a central element within all foodservice operations, large or small. Dealing with food waste is a time, energy and space consuming process, generally considered as non-profit generating, however, kitchen food waste, managed and correctly handled, can be a cost-efficient, sustainable and environmentally important resource.Efficiently managing food waste is an acknowledged strength of Meiko UK Limited. Paraphrase: Food waste handling solutions and systems for a cross-section of foodservice establishments. Meiko UK food disposal equipment is a sustainable and environmentally-friendly answer to reducing kitchen waste to landfill sites. The Anaerobic Digestion system is like a vacuum that transports food waste through a pipe to a tank. After that, it is taken to a composting facility and used as a renewable energy source.

Here is another example of the 10th myth of sustainability. In this article it explains how a companies goal of selling sustainable pesticides went wrong, and that It actually does more harm then good.

@ Kelsey Martell, I used one of the yippy and dogpile websites. They take some time to fish through because they too still bring up a lot of redundant information.

What a great article that goes along with the 10th myth of sustainability. This gives a good example of how more harm is done when companies selling pesticides then good. This was a very interesting article to read through. Great job finding this article Jacob.

This article talks about the how much restaurants waste. It talks about how they don't realize how much food is being thrown away. One restaurant owner took away the garage can to teach the employees about not wasting food. They saved a lot of food because every time they have to throw something away they have to ask. It also talks about the odor that comes off of dumpsters. It is then take to landfills where the garbage breaks down into methane to damage peoples health. Its not only the producers who are wasting its also the consumers.

A major problem we have today is that food waste is a low priority for restaurants and nobody is doing anything about it.

This article explains that restaurants find food waste a low priority. This happens because as a restraunt you always have to be prepared if its slow or busy. If its busy then great you wont have any food to be thrown out but if its slow you have to throw away that days production.

A really cool and smart thing that can make waste useful two times over. Not only by making it into a compost but also by using it to produce electrical energy. Europe is already using these techniques and it is nice to know that we, America, are following suite.

This article talks about how much schools waste. Tribune went into Chicago public schools to see just how much they were wasting. The results were 334 pounds of uneaten food per day. Often times children aren't allowed to take uneaten food out of the cafeteria because it falls into liability and health issues for the school districts then. Chicago schools districts is trying to come up with a way to not have as much food waste but not have liability and health issues on their hands.

As the writer explained, we are throwing food away up to 40 percent every year, 10 times as much as Southeast Asia, and up to 50 percent from the 1970s. As the result, people are buying food unawareness or the fast food.

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.

This article is mainly talking about a change that a food industry alliance is trying to do with grocery manufactures associations. They have started trying to find local restaurants, stores, and food processors to cut those transport times and extend the life shelves of produce. This committee has begun the research step to try and help America with food waste and taking their first steps.

this article talks about a solution that is in the making that will reduce food waste.

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.

Great article that gives actual numbers and graphs on food waste.Goes over food transportation and also tips on how to reduce food waste!

Wasting food is not only wasting money, but it is unhealthy. We waste moneyand kill the earth and the environment at the same time. There are several things we can do to change our harmful way of life.