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Food waste

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Caroline Doran October 31, 2015 Mrs. Mulholland Lit 9 One ? Third of Food is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done 10 to 20 loads of clean, unblemished, and crisp lettuce towering over 7 feet high 2.8 trillion pound of wasted food that could feed at least 3 billion people USA loses 30 percent of food and that is 162 billion dollars Loss is at the beginning of the food chain during harvest Waste occurs at the end of the food chain at the retail stage Food goes bad during transportation Restaurants serve large portions and when the customer doesn?t finish their food the restaurants are required to throw the food out Organizations are providing Africa with low tech technology to help preserve their food and the loss have dropped 45% of their tomatoes

APES 10th edition Chapter 18 questions

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Chris Nowak 3/22/13 Ch. 18 Paper, yard waste, metals, plastics, food wastes, glass, wood, rubber, other. 30.6% recycling, 14% combustion, 55.4% landfills leachate generation and groundwater contamination, methane production, incomplete decomposition, settling. The things listed above damage and harm the environment. For example, groundwater contamination lessens the availability for drinking water. Everyone wants to get rid of the waste, but nobody wants to take the waste. We must recycle more and conserve our resources. Good: Easy conversion, lessens weight, and resource recovery.?Bad: Air and odor pollutant, wastes energy and resources.
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