Approximately 1.3 billion tons or one-third of the food produced worldwide is wasted or lost, according to statistics from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
the statistics given in here are just terrifying just like all the other statistics. i find really smart on how to prevent the disposal of food. when fruit goes bad it could be turn into smoothies instead of throwing it away.
This page gives you great ways on how to reduce food waste and save money. The advice that caught my attention right away was the one where it tells you to know the people that you are going to be cooking for. It is true why cook for four people that eat plenty when only one or two of them would really enjoy a meal.
What's in your trash? A few moldy apples, half a can of spoiled tomato paste, limp veggies, Saturday's leftovers? That might not seem like much, but it adds up
A wonderful page that tries to make everyone be aware on how much food they waste but the most important a few ways in how to prevented. One way that i really liked was putting leftovers in visible parts of the fridge like in the front or the door.
5 Billion eggs are thrown to trash every year - just because they are the wrong size, or their color may be slightly off. You read that right -- 5 BIILLION EGGS!! How many omelets could be made for hungry children from 5 BILLION Eggs
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.
In this page the author from our book, American Wasteland, its mentioned and some statistics from our book. Its pretty similar to the things that we are studying and seen before. The waste of food on restaurants, supermarkets, etc.
Really interesting on how to take the kids attention. Its really smart to have small appetizers than big plates whit a lot of food that could be waste.
"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.
In San Fransisco the backyard discomposing had been promoted for a few years but the population has increase and not a lot of people have backyards now. The city now provide people with three cans to dispose three different materials. One of the cans is for organics another for food waste =) and the last one for food-soiled paper.