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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.

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.

Step by step on how to make compost, where and when to use it.

This article talks about how Americans waste so much food from the grocery stores to restaurants and they still think of something else that is going to hurt their pockets.

In this article there is a list with food items that are accepted to be recycle and another list for items which are not accepted. It also talks about the food waste composting program and how it is now done in restaurants and coffee shops. It also gives suggestions to prevent food odor. 

This article is from 2004. It states that durig an "extensive" 8 year study they found that $75 billion of food waste is being tossed out each year. It also states that if Americans knew how to use food more "wisely", and buy more "wisely" they wouldn't waste so much of it. They suggest freezing leftovers to save them and eat them later.

This gives you suggestions on how to reduce wastes during the holidays. We all know that during the holidays lots of food can go to waste.

In the U.K. there are working on new techniques on what to do with our food waste. They are engineering new methods on how to convert food waste into reusable energy.

This article is similar to American Wasteland. It tells of how and when food is wasted and what we can do to improve this waste problem. 

This article talks about how the landfills are harming our environment. this is a very huge issue in America and we need to something about this but its going to require an effort

This webisite consists of tips and local information on helping to stop food waste. It also includes home composting which helps you learn how to waste less food and build your own gardens.

This website shows all types of articles obtaining to your topic on food waste. They have tags set up so you just click on it and read all articles differating from bussiness, food waste tracking, all the way to how the government is acting upon all of its food waste.

This article talks about 10 facts about sustainability. How we need to grow our own food because now a days the food is being genetically modified and the government is subsiding with it. My favorite way of sustainability was to eat animal products because "organic" foods in marketplaces may be mono cropped.

Everything you want to know about the new Healthcre bill. This is the official White House website that provides lots of good information. Learn about the new law, how it effects you, myths & facts, and news related to this bill. 

Food waste doesn't just occur by someone simply throwing it out. Food waste happens before it even hits our dinner table. This article discusses the consumption of different foods and the waste.

This article breaks down how America waste food. it gives food waste statistics in America. Its Jonathan Bloom's American Wasteland in an article.

This article explains to us about how much money we waste by throwing food in the trash. It also explains the percentages and overall money we spend as a country on food we throw away.

The average family throws out around $2,275 in food annually. And for most Americans around $40 a month, or 33 lbs of food, ends up in the trash.

This article first explains how it can effective to change the school lighting to energy saving light. It then goes on asking questions and concerns that people might have to changing to energy saving lighting. Though this is one step to sustainability it isn't a full step like people often think.

Food waste ranges from 25 - 75 percent, depending on the food type, that amounts to 1.3 tons of edible food that's tossed each year. The food industry creates up to 30% of the world's annual carbon emissions. That's not it, it creates more emissions once it's discarded to landfills.

This program is dedicated to finding a number of solutions to the problems we are facing today with food waste, and manage a way to be sustainable. As well managing an organized strategy to get everyone involved.

This article is about how companies,society, and farmers are identifying the most important ways to produce food systems that improve and add value to the food systems that we have in place now.

In Washington State the Department of Corrections and The Energreen State Cooege started a partnership to reduce the food waste in the prisons. How you may ask? The Monroe Correction Complex are using worms to cut and reduce the food waste inside the complex. Five million worms can process 10,000 lbs of food scraps per month; reducing the costs more than 25% and saving 60,000 a year on food waste disposal.