Food Waste

We are now producing enough food for everyone on this planet. However, agriculture is lost in millions of native grasslands, North Plains in the United States. Production of adequate food while suppressing environmental impact is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

That's why an effective food strategy must address food loss and waste. In order to meet the food security needs of the world and the needs of the people of the increasingly wealthy world, we need to increase productivity and efficiency while reducing food waste.

Around the world, humans are wasting one for each of the three foods produced. These wasted calories are enough to feed a total of 3 billion people, 10 times the population of the United States, more than twice the population of China, and more than 3 times the world's nutritionally deficient population. About 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions are accounted for by waste. This is the main cause of deforestation and global water depletion.

This makes big chance a waste reduction. WWF is currently tying people to explore ways to measure and reduce the waste from the hospitality, retail, food service industry, even schools and farms to the dining table.

If you or your business is interested in a new way to innovate and reduce food loss and waste, let us all learn from each other and reduce food loss and waste in the USA You can help. 2030

In the United States, from the Thanksgiving Day to the New Year, 5 million tons of household food waste is generated each year. This is three times the rest of the year. This is a waste of food. The holiday season will also result in more energy waste, more garbage, more environmental pressure. Next, let's not waste all the delicious food you make, especially meat. During Thanksgiving, Americans abandoned about 277 million dollars of unfed food. It contains about 200 million turkeys, and up to 6 million turkeys (and all resources they procure) are added to our waste stream.

Generally, Americans will waste 40% of the food produced in the United States. The natural resources that produce this food are also wasted. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, if food waste is a country it will be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. The food we waste has a great influence on wildlife and the environment. Most of the abandoned food in the landfill eventually threatens wild animals with toxic waste. When they mistakenly enter the net and become 'bycatch', our wasted fishery behavior will harm the endangered animals. These marine animals such as turtles, dolphins, whales, sharks, etc. are abandoned by millions of people.

Composting garbage reduces the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. In the landfill, organic food waste is decomposed anaerobically to produce methane gas, which is released into the atmosphere. When this biodegradable waste is composted, it decomposes under aerobic conditions and does not produce methane, but instead it can produce organic compost and use it for agriculture. Recently, New York City began asking restaurants and food manufacturing companies to start composting the rest of the food. Another example of progress in composting is a company in Wisconsin state called WasteCap. This is aimed at helping local communities create composting programs.