Biggest Contributors to Food Waste Every year, Americans waste almost 80 billion pounds of food, about 40% of our entire food supply. To put this in perspective, the USDA reported 13.5 million households in the United States suffered from food insecurity. If we’d redirect all the wasted food to these people, each household would have almost 6000 extra pounds of food a year. Yet year after year, Americans throw away an average of 219 pounds of food per each. All of this is…
Reduce Waste by Starting a Home Compost A compost is an easy way to reduce your individual impact on global food waste. About 28% of the waste that ends up in landfills can actually be composted. But if food decomposes anyways, why bother with setting up a compost? When your food ends up in a landfill, it gets trapped under a mountain of other junk, forcing it to decompose through anaerobic decomposition. This process releases the greenhouse gas methane. Methane is 36 times…
Urban Farming Hack Something I’ve been really looking into lately is urban gardening. There’s something very appealing about being able to grow my own food, especially in light of the rising inflations. While I’m not going to save millions growing some veggies at home, I still feel that in the long run, this will be at least somewhat beneficial. However, like most people, I don’t have a ton of space to dedicate to farming and I’m not about to get a couple dozen acres anytime…
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