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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 the problem of food waste in America and how we can reverse it. He explains that groups of researchers are figuring out how to use our wasted foods and turn them into things we can reuse.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that Americans waste 30 percent of all edible food produced, bought, and sold in this country, although it acknowledges that this figure is probably low.Part of the problem is the heterogeneous nature of food waste -there is no single culprit, just many diffuse sources that add up to a slow and steady bleed on the economy and the environment. This site tells us what we already know, just some random helpful information in there that is fun and good to know.

Everyone is responsible for food being wasted the biggest contributors being cafeteria's, restaurants, and grocery stores. The first steps to wage war on food waste are to buy conservatively and make just enough instead of to much. Also to embrace the three R's reduce, reuse, and recycle.