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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.

This article actually quotes our American Wasteland book. It gives statistics that Bloom explains in chapter 2 of AWL

This article talks about how food waste has increased over the years. It gives some suggestions on what we can do to prevent food waste. It also mentions how fresh products make most of household waste and how restaurants contribute to the food waste. 

This chart and article show the changes since 1974 to today. It also shows how it is wasted between consumers, production, and distribution.

Fish poop and Food waste to create food, pretty creative. Even though this is only in it's experimental stages this was a very good idea. We ope this works and soon we can read about people buying this product! We just hope it really doesn't taste like fish!

The media is one of the best way to stop food waste today because everyone can be inform quickly. It informs us about the different between losses and waste. Food losses occure at the food production systems while food waste is more a problem of consumers throwing good food into the trash.

The use of technology to reduce waste in landfills. Gives you a calculation of the monetary equivalent of the food you waste in your company. Gives a preview of how their products work.

The study of analyzing the climate change and economic impacts of food waste. The analysis shows that cutting back food waste exceeds 55 million metric tons per year, nearly 29% of annual production. Food waste produces life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of about 113 million metric tons of CO2e a year, it's equivalent to 2% of national emissions, and costs $198 billion.

Portable pulverizer gives food waste the thrashing of a lifetime: article on a Nevada based business that has introduced a new product to help restaurants, grocery stores and farmers with reduction of their waste. the Machine " The machine "shreds, rips, bruises and pulverizes" food waste, allowing more of it to fit within a receptacle, and preparing it for easy composting

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.

Dana Gunders, at N.R.D.C. she is a project scientist who specializes in food and agriculture. She once stated "This issue has received very little attention in the U.S.," regarding Food Waste. Although some of the bare minimal such as, energy, land, and fresh water all take part in the production for the American consumers.

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.

At evey step of the supply chain, food is getting wasted. A study suggested a few ways to help reduce food waste are examples like being mindful of buying too much food and cooking too much of it. Also freeze food to save for later instead of throwing it out.

This article suggests different strategies to limit our population. Heavily taxing everyday consumer items may help lower population. If the population lowers than the likely hood of lowering the impact is low.

This website gives information on how we can help save our environment. It has different sections which give knowledge on certain subjects, like Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities, Air,Climate and Energy, Sustainable Water, and Materials Managment and Safe Products. 

It is the EPA web page. They give ideas and ways to help improve the environment in all facets of life.

This article discusses the types of action EPA is taking in regards to sustainability. They also talk about the growth, the water, and the efforts they are making to help communities prosper the environment, economy, and society.

This article talks about the massive amount of food that is wasted each year in America. It focuses more on the waste that goes on in the production, packaging, and shipping part than in our homes. It is a very interesting article that brings up many valid points.

this is a short article that talks goes into detail about how the average american family waste over 2,000 dollars of food a year and it also talkes a little about the gas methane

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.

Good points are brought up about the main reason for hunger, being wasting food. the people that suffer most from hunger are children. The countries that waste the most are the rich ones like America.