Waste, Waste, Waste By Isabella Portillo
Gross! I thought as I was looking down. I was looking at a dump. You could see mountains of gross, moldy, and old junk and food in stacks. You
tons of food in 2012. Americans throw away about onethird of our available food.The food waste keeps increasing every year. Scientists predict that by 2050 we will run out of food if we dont stop wasting!
Americans wasted 50 percent more in 1990, and almost three times as much food wasted in 1960, when the United States threw out about what seemed like 12.2 million tons. Today food waste takes up over a fifth of the country's landfills. Every single year in rich countries, they waste almost 222 million tons of food. Wow! That’s a lot of food wasted!
are witnessing how many meals get thrown away. Food waste is exactly what you are seeing. As might be expected, food waste will
Perfectly Good Food Wasted…
be a major problem in the near future.Therefore scientists are trying to come up with ideas to stop food waste every single day.
All the wasted food in a restaurant.
A lot of food is wasted in the world.
The World Is Really A Landfill There is more to food waste than you think. It goes on in the world as well as restaurants, grocery stores, and your home. In 2012 Americans threw out about 35 million tons of food. That's almost 20 percent more food that Americans wasted in 2005. Also
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A Major Problem Why would we waste food? Is it because of a brown or mushy spot? Or is it that we didn't like it? Those are all reasons why people waste food. People all over the world waste. We waste so much food because something is wrong with our meal. We wasted 34.7 million
Americans waste fruits and vegetables more than other types of food.
Grocery shops waste as often as everyone else does. Ever see that bannana that everyone walks by? After the day ends the employees throw out any bruised products that were not purchased.You know why because they are scared that people would stop coming.They throw out food every day. In fact grocery stores worry that if there are complaints they will possibly run out of business. People all over the world waste.
For the reasons above, before you take a snack, think about if you are going to finish it. For instance, when you are at a restaurant and you are looking at a menu, stop and think for a moment and think will I finish this meal? There is a lot of food waste in the whole world. You know what's shocking though that so many people waste every day. They waste perfectly good food every single day. What can you do to help stop food waste?