Reducing Food Waste In America

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I worked at Real Canadian Superstore from last five months and the amount of food they throw away every day is pretty huge. I don’t feel good throwing food every day but I have to do it on regular basis. Supermarkets throwing away vast amount food every day and on the other side some people are not getting two meals a day. Once I asked my manager why we throw this much food if we can donate it? The answer I got was shocking, he told me that we are here to do business, not community service. Not only supermarkets but farmers and individuals too are responsible for increasing food waste problem. This has both negative on the environment and the waste of our resources. Food

The first way to reduce food waste is to save and save me. If you have finished eating and you are full but you still have some food left over put it in your lunch box and save it for a later snack. Another thing you can do is ask if anyone else wants it. You could also save it for tomorrow's lunch. Another Idea is compost. Compost is one of the best ways to not waste food. You can compost all food, cardboard and pot of other materials. Compost is really easy and after a while of composting it will become a habit. The last subject I will talk about is how you could start a food donation program. This is a good way to help with food waste. This will help because if you donate all the food you would normally waste that would decrease the waste. Reducing food waste is easy and is a win win for

How can food waste be reduced in the food and hospitality industry for the future?

Moreover, food waste is the simple act of throwing food into the trash can. Every single person in the nation has experienced food waste since they see it happening every day when people throw away food in their house, at school, in restaurants, and even when they go out to the park. It follows that this is food waste, and unfortunately food waste one of the principal problems that the nation is facing today. Everybody needs to understand the consequences of this problem, and the government needs to find a viable way to deal with the food waste, before it becomes too late to control this

Food waste is an environmental, economic, and ethical problem that can lead to less calorie intake and unnecessary damage of our assets. Individual behavior can redesign food waste at home and lead to bigger changes in the ecosystem. The problem is Americans throw out more food than glass, paper, and plastic. Also about 25% of food grown, processed, and transported in the US will never be consumed. When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of methane— a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

With the seemingly unstoppable growth of the world’s population and a projected global population of nine billion by 2050, the matter of whether or not there will be enough food to support the world’s populace is brought into question (Parfitt, et al., 2010). However, amid the concern for an adequate food supply, there is an immense amount of food waste produced by the world, including the United States. In fact, “according to the Natural Resources Defense Council as much as 40 percent of all food produced in the United States never gets eaten and typically ends up in the landfills or goes unharvested in the field “(King, 2015).

Evidence: Eighty percent of the fresh water that we consume is used to grow food. Yet we end up throwing nearly half of that food away. "When you throw out a burger, that's the equivalent of taking a 90-minute shower, "says Dana Gunders from the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Throwing out an apple is like taking a seven-minute shower

Many businesses waste food especially by overstocking. In farmer’s markets many farmers overstock their crates with produce to have appeal to the buyers. Delaney Zayac gives us an example that if he would have sold more chard if people saw more of it in the crate compared to seeing only some (Last Week Tonight). This is because many people have the assumption that if it’s the last one there must be something wrong with it. With that being the case many farmers overstock produce so that it takes away that assumption and people would buy their product. But overstocking also causes food waste, with farmers overstocking their produce to make it look appealing to buyers they

I think that us, in America waste much more food than we would like to admit, and it is hurting our economy and it is not helping other countries that need that food. In New York City food waste contributes to about one third of the total garbage that they have in their landfills, and dumps. When we throw away and waste food, we are also wasting the water that is in that food. The foods with the most water in them is fruits and vegetables. I think that we need to cut down on the food that we waste or we are going to be in serious trouble with famine and drought in the future.

Trash. What is considered trash? Trash, is a subjective term. For some, it’s the whole, “waste not, want not”, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, etc. We’ve all heard these age old adages, but how much do we, as concerned Americans truly take this to heart when it comes to food waste? Some may argue that an expiration date is some magical sign to throw food away, which, does have some truth to it. No one wants to eat food that’s expired, and therefore, will make one sick. However, as a nation, America contributes to food waste by holding a staggering forty percent of the world’s food waste total (Flick). If America contributes to almost half of the world’s food waste, then it stands to reason that America is the most

Throughout the United States millions of people starve every day; at the other end of the spectrum millions of people waste thousands of tons of food a day. This is a dilemma that young adults are trying to correct. The problem that lies in front of them, involves the waste from colleges. College students continue to combat each other. Some colleges in the United States use the food they waste to create energy or compost for local crops. While others do nothing to help the environment and don’t are about sustainability. “‘If anyone is going to reverse the trend of food waste, it's millennials,’ says Dana Gunders at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council. ‘They care, they're just starting to form their food habits and they're opened

There are billions of people struggling every day to have enough to eat, and billions of tons of food being tossed in the garbage, food waste is gaining increasing awareness as a serious environmental and economic issue. Research shows that about 60 million metric tons of food is wasted a year in the United States, with an estimated value of $162 billion. About 32 million tons of it end up in landfills, at a cost of about $1.5 billion a year to local government this economic crisis is worldwide! My research estimates that a third of all the food produced in the world is never consumed, and the total cost of that food waste could be as high as $400 billion a year. The food discarded by retailers and consumers in the most developed countries would be more than enough to feed all of the world’s hungry people, but it is not just those countries that have problems with food waste, it is also an issue in African countries like South Africa. The problem is expected to grow worse as the world’s population increases, unless actions are taken to reduce the waste. Food waste is not only a social cost, but it contributes to growing environmental problems like global warming, experts say, with the production of food consuming vast quantities of water, fertilizer and land. The fuel that is burned to process, refrigerate and transport it also adds to the environmental cost. Most food waste is thrown away in landfills, where it decomposes and emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

I have been doing research on food waste in Athens, Ohio. The goal of my research is to find a plausible solution to the waste. To begin the gathering of information, I searched through the Ohio University ArticlesPlus Database to find any journals that I could find pertaining to the state of America’s food waste, how we can make a difference, and what has already been implemented to make a change. This was my way of looking at the amount of food wasted from a bigger perspective. I found four sources on the issue as a whole, to which I have included in my annotated bibliography. All sources have a primary focus on statistics of food waste in America, and finding a solution to the problem that we have created. The statistics

Moving forward, people are not the only ones affected by food waste, it takes a significant hit on our environment. When the excess food from dinner gets thrown away it doesn’t just evaporate into the air like fairy dust it gets sent to landfills that are expanding by the second. The size of these landfills although a worry not a top priority, the methane gas they release are. The methane that is released is 25 times more damaging to the earth. The levels of methane are low right now but if they increase which they will because of the landfills are expanding it will have significant effects of the clarity of the air we breathe. 10% of rich countries greenhouse gas emissions comes from growing food that is never eaten. Ironic that the food that is ruining the environment is from food that is