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January 18, 2018

Wormeries Several years ago a study commissioned by the United Nations found that, at a time when the world has more hungry people than ever before, one-third of all food is wasted. Consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food, 222 million tonnes, as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa. A previous […]

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Sustainable Uses of Food Waste

September 5, 2017

SUSTAINABLE USES OF FOOD WASTE Food waste is considered by many people as non-useful materials. It is harmful to the environment. Greenhouse gases are released as by-products of food waste and these warm the environment, causing imaginable negative environmental impacts such as sea level rise and floods. Wasted food items are also harmful to humans. […]

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Unnatural Balance: How Food Waste Impacts World’s Wildlife

January 6, 2016

Unnatural Balance: How Food Waste Impacts World’s Wildlife New research indicates that the food discarded in landfills and at sea is having a profound effect on wildlife populations and fisheries. But removing that food waste creates its own ecological challenges.  The world wastes more than $750 billion worth of food every year — 1.6 billion tons of food […]

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The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food?

May 18, 2015

The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food? In an e360 video, filmmaker Karim Chrobog looks at the staggering amount of food wasted in the U.S. – a problem with major human and environmental costs. The video focuses on Washington, D.C., which has taken steps to see that food ends up with those […]

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The Lost Right of Gleaning | David Bollier

December 21, 2014

The Lost Right of Gleaning | David Bollier. Amazingly, it is sometimes a criminal act to retrieve food that has been thrown away. Often it is simply seen as culturally inappropriate or embarrassing. But when an estimated $165 billion worth of food gets thrown away in the U.S. every year, surely it’s time to change […]

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Food Waste: A Way of Life That Needs to Change | Underground Medic

November 6, 2014

Food Waste: A Way of Life That Needs to Change | Underground Medic. I hate food waste. I loathe spending good money on decent food and then seeing it go into the garbage. For that reason food waste  has been banned from my home. I understand that it can be difficult to avoid sometimes. We all […]

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