Food Waste

In the US, we lose 40% food supply every year. This section explains the problems caused by food waste and what we can do to eliminate them.

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According to Hunnes, teaching children about food waste (if you understand the concept) is another easy way to reduce food waste. "I tell my son how bad waste is bad for the environment because raw garbage is thrown into the landfill to produce methane," she explained. "Although he does not know all these details, I understand the basics, that wasting food is bad for the environment and it costs money."

Recently, food waste has become a problem for many people and organizations, as radar waste wastes limited resources and causes climate change. There are many reasons for food waste. For example, in more developed countries, consumers and retailers' foods are lacking knowledge of maturity dates and consumers think that they want only perfect food, which is very wasteful. In developing regions, due to transportation and preservation problems and inefficiency, food is very wasteful before entering the consumer at the farm level.

According to Refed, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating food waste in the United States, the retail food sector generates annually 8 million tons of food waste. In addition, there are many packaging waste. Food is shipped in a box. It is placed on miscellaneous shelves and is often wrapped in plastic or cellophane. After that, the consumer puts the food in a plastic bag or paper bag and takes it home. Chris Cochran, Executive Director of ReFed, says: He said retailers began to explore ways to cut costs and value, as the competition of the industry gets more intense (Amazon places great pressure on the entire retail industry before buying the Whole Foods Market) It was.