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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 03:16 PM Aug 2014

40% of the food in the United States is wasted, uneaten, rotting in landfills or scrapped/wasted b4

it gets to the final consumer. .. Natural Resources Defense Council.


http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf


40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. This not only means that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also that the uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills as the single largest component of U.S. municipal solid waste where it accounts for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions. Reducing food losses by just 15 percent would be enough food to feed more than 25 million Americans every year at a time when one in six Americans lack a secure supply of food to their tables.
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40% of the food in the United States is wasted, uneaten, rotting in landfills or scrapped/wasted b4 (Original Post) Bill USA Aug 2014 OP
That's sad. Think of all the homeless and other poor that food could feed. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #1
SHhh, I try and hide what I waste. hollysmom Aug 2014 #2
You have some crows around? They'll eat anything almost. They won't shraby Aug 2014 #4
If it gets trashed before it even gets to the consumer, then it is not Americans that are throwing notadmblnd Aug 2014 #3
Kicking. Thank you. nt littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #5

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
2. SHhh, I try and hide what I waste.
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 03:34 PM
Aug 2014

When you live alone, food rots. I try and eat what I bought but some days I just want to go out to eat. I have chicken I have to eat today, it is day 4 and I have cottage cheese also due, It happens,. I through the produce on the mulch pile, but can't do that with rotten meat. Stores have to stop pricing whole watermelons less than quarter slices.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
4. You have some crows around? They'll eat anything almost. They won't
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 06:10 PM
Aug 2014

eat left over bean soup. The meat out of it, yes.
We have no garbage waste..what doesn't go in the compost goes to the birds and they eat it like it was a meal fit for a king.

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
3. If it gets trashed before it even gets to the consumer, then it is not Americans that are throwing
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 03:37 PM
Aug 2014

it away. It is agri-business, no?

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