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3. food & berverages: Food waste:
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#30 to 50 percent of food produced in the world is thrown away Two women collect food waste beside an industrial dumpster at the main food market in Madrid.
but the timeworn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork,
which plans to publish a report on food waste in April. In a year, that means each person throws away almost 400 pounds of food, the weight of an adult male gorilla.
#Not sustainable if not eatenbut the impact of food waste stretches far beyond the kitchen. Agriculture is the world s largest user of water, a big consumer of energy and chemicals and major emitter of greenhouse gases during production, distribution and landfill decay.
Making pizza toppings stickeurope is a leader in tackling food waste, but the United states is catching on as producers,
The U s. Environmental protection agency said 33 million tons of food waste hit landfills and incinerators in 2010, the largest solid waste product in the system.
#Researchers say people of every age#especially children#contribute to the food waste problem. Gove said she has cut waste by starting with smaller meal portions for her children,
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According to the EPA, in 2010, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated in America. That s more than any other waste category but paper.
Food waste represents 14 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, making it the single largest component of trash we throw away from our homes.
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you might want to read a comprehensive new report about food waste. It suggests that instead of a production issue, as such, the real#oefood crisis#revolves around poor distribution and storage,
The food waste problem varies according to the development level of the country. In fully industrialized countries, waste tends to occur further up the chain:
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Overhauling the U s. date-labeling system is a straightforward concrete solution that will reduce food waste.
With better laws more information and smarter business practices Americans can begin to reduce food waste
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Feeding the growing population will likely require a number of different strategies from creating new crop varieties and reducing food waste to yes eating insects with efforts from governments farmers the private sector and consumers themselves.
Reduce food waste Another strategy to help ensure food security in a world with so many hungry mouths to feed is to simply reduce food waste.
while food waste refers to food that is discarded by the consumer either when it is still edible
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and environmental benefits worth $30 billion. 2. Americans are tackling food waste My colleague Dana Gunders helped make food waste a topic of national discussion this year.
I spoke at a TEDX event in New york about the vast scope of food waste in the United states
The U s. Department of agriculture and the U s. Environmental protection agency (EPA) launched the first national attempt to address food waste this year issuing a challenge to the food industry to find ways to reduce food waste.
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Our food system encourages food waste on a massive scale about 40 percent of the food in this country never gets eaten.
Food waste also produces about one-quarter of U s. methane emissions making it a source of climate pollution that needs to be addressed.
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Swill feeding, in which pigs are fed scraps of human food waste, is popular among small-scale farmers.
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of which showed a trash can with a face asking people to please feed me food waste only!
The other poster showed just a green trashcan that said please put food waste in only!
Participants who saw the trashcan with a face said they were more likely to participate in the food waste recycling program than those who saw the regular trashcan.
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Data used to develop this graphic come from the U n. Food and agriculture organization (FAO) report FAO 2011 Global Losses and Food waste part of the Save Food initiative.
To tackle food waste the U s. Department of agriculture and partner Worrell Water Technologies developed a one-square-inch packet that extends the refrigerated life of fruits and vegetables by up to five weeks.
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or wasted from field to forka comprehensive new review of food waste in the People's republic of china has concluded that about 19 of every 100 pounds of grain produced in the country go to waste with related losses of water for irrigation and farmland productivity.
Junguo Liu and colleagues point out that food waste is a global problem with an estimated one-third to one-half of food produced worldwide being lost
and putting in place monitoring programs to track food waste with more precision. The authors acknowledge funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's republic of china the National Natural science Foundation of China the Special Fund for Forestry Scientific research in the Public interest the Organization Department of the Central Committee the Fundamental Research
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They note that additional strategies such as reducing food waste and changing to plant-based diets can also help reduce the large estimates for increased global demand for food.
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but also to prevent food waste. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Cornell Food
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Scientists know that food waste in landfills for instance releases methane gas as it decomposes. Methane is about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that fosters global warming.
Floros pointed out that reducing food waste would contribute to solving other great global challenges that society faces in the 21st century beyond feeding a booming population.
Wasting food wastes the freshwater needed to grow it at a time when 1. 2 billion people lack access to clean water.
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and reduces food waste. If you improve the efficiency of postharvest handling you reduce waste and losses and that improves sustainability Brecht said.
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and reducing food waste are part of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change say the team behind a new study.
The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally-damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that
Food waste another scenario analysed by the team occurs at all stages in the food chain. In developing countries poor storage and transportation cause waste;
and halving food waste still showed a small increase of 2%in greenhouse gas emissions. When healthy diets were added the model suggests that all three measures combined result in agricultural GHG levels almost halving from their 2009 level--dropping 48%.
Cutting food waste and moderating meat consumption in more balanced diets are the essential'no-regrets'options added Bajzelj.
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and environmental protection relate to making more crop calories available for human consumption by shifting crops from livestock to humans and reducing food waste.
The authors illustrate how food waste in the U s. China and India affect available calories noting that reducing waste in these three countries alone could yield food for more than 400 million people.
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For consumers in developed countries halving food waste meat consumption and related feed use would not only benefit their health
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Reducing food waste--Another thing that's easier to accomplish is cutting back on food waste he said adding that 30 to 40 percent of food that's produced is used not.
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and after the standards went into effect contradicts criticisms that the new standards have increased food waste.
Importantly the new standards did not result in increased food waste contradicting anecdotal reports from food service directors teachers parents
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and charred food waste coming from kitchens and excrement. Ellis says among the discoveries in the drains was an abundance of the remains of fully-processed foods especially grains.
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But food waste isn't just a problem at Thanksgiving. In fact, the U s. has a $165 billion food waste problem.
This Thanksgiving, Be More Grateful than Wasteful NRDC Switchboard Photo: Flickr/Pink Sherbet Photography
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10 ways to get ready for the end of oillast week a reader wrote to me:
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Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology according to research published in the International Journal of Nanoparticles. 2.)U s. Government Accountability Office
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food wastea new report from the United Nation's Food and agriculture organization points to a major global food waste problem that's hurting the economy and the planet.
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what is local Look at ways to reduce food waste Focus on water management Harness the skills of women farmers
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The EPA says about 12 percent of our total waste is food waste. At restaurants, almost all of it is recyclable or compostable.
You can expect a large conference hotel to compost a ton of food waste a day, and a large restaurant can compost about 1, 000 to 1, 500 pounds a day.
The food code says all food waste goes into the sewer system. Our sewer system is combined a sewer system,
which generate food wastes has to have and use one or more food waste grinders that are located conveniently near each such activity and
which have adequate capacity to dispose of all readily grindable food waste produced. Is really this happening?
They are required technically to, but they don t. You d have to have a full-time guy with a shovel.
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For business, food waste a ripe opportunity for savingsi feel like a character in a movie, said Holly Elmore, a 53-year-old former caterer from Atlanta.
It's against America's rising tide of food waste, which bloats its landfills and costs it the equivalent of $165 billion a year in wasted food.
The goal is to eliminate every scrap of food waste. Spent grease is turning into biofuel.
In fact, the Environmental protection agency says food waste accounts for 13 percent of total trash nationally. In 1980, food waste by weight made up 9. 5 percent of local landfills.
Two years ago, that total had grown to 20.5 percent. The EPA puts the total amount at 33 million tons a year.
food waste has always been a cost of doing business. The $10 million outfit, among the largest in the United states, now trains its 250 workers to hold back good food until guests need it or ask for it;
A growth opportunity Food waste happens along every part of our industrial food chain. In surplus years, farmers plow under perfectly edible crops
which put out a comprehensive issue paper on food waste in August, said there are many opportunities for new business to spring up along the food waste system.
Gunders pointed to one farmer who realized 70 percent of his carrots went to waste
Noting that household food waste is often the result of bad meal planning, poor sight lines in the refrigerator that lets food rot unseen
But less than three percent of food waste is composted, according to the EPA. Some of that has to do with regulatory hurdles that composters face to open new facilities.
and for using food waste in methane gas capture. In Atlanta, the zero-waste zone downtown has brought new players into the market,
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the UK's Institution of Mechanical engineers says in  Waste Not Want Not-Global Food waste:
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Beijing s Gaoancun food waste processing plant smells surprisingly pleasant. Every evening trucks carrying half-eaten cabbage, decomposing Kung Pao Chicken,
Food waste accounts for more than half of the nearly 20,000 tons of garbage Beijing generates daily, most
Food waste s high water content makes it tough to burn raising the costs of incineration. For companies like Goldenway Biotech, who built the Gaoancun plant,
Beijing's food waste mountain is a business opportunity. The company sells its waste generated fertilizer to organic farms,
Goldenway says it can produce 0. 6 tons of organic fertilizer from a single ton of food waste,
whether Chinese city dwellers can be persuaded to  associate food waste processing with the fragrance of freshly picked strawberries, rather than rotting meat.
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Preventing food waste can also help achieve sustainability through food packaging. Many food products are thrown away because consumers believe--falsely--that they ve gone bad.
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