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Charted: Here's how much your food waste hurts the environment
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 428" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.popsci.com/wasted-food-environment-impact" target="_blank"><strong>Charted: Here's how much your food waste hurts the environment - Popular Science</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>When you let broccoli rot in your fridge, you add noxious gases to more than just your veggie drawer. </em></p><p></p><p>Our species is pretty good at wasting food. Some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/14/from-field-to-fork-the-six-stages-of-wasting-food" target="_blank">we discard at the farm</a> for being undersized or oddly shaped. Others we allow to decay in their shipping containers, thrown away before they even reach shelves. We leave even more foodstuffs wasting away in grocery stores, often by letting it sit there until it reaches its sell-by date. As consumers, we don’t have much control over most of the process that brings our food to the grocery store, but we do have control over how much food we personally waste.</p><p></p><p>Let's face it: We’ve all found liquified lettuce in our veggie drawers. Don't fret. It's arguably impossible to consume 100 percent of the food we buy. But a healthy reminder of the effect food waste has on the environment might help us all to be more conscious of the amount of food we eat—and don't eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 428, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.popsci.com/wasted-food-environment-impact'][B]Charted: Here's how much your food waste hurts the environment - Popular Science[/B][/URL] [I]When you let broccoli rot in your fridge, you add noxious gases to more than just your veggie drawer. [/I] Our species is pretty good at wasting food. Some [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/14/from-field-to-fork-the-six-stages-of-wasting-food']we discard at the farm[/URL] for being undersized or oddly shaped. Others we allow to decay in their shipping containers, thrown away before they even reach shelves. We leave even more foodstuffs wasting away in grocery stores, often by letting it sit there until it reaches its sell-by date. As consumers, we don’t have much control over most of the process that brings our food to the grocery store, but we do have control over how much food we personally waste. Let's face it: We’ve all found liquified lettuce in our veggie drawers. Don't fret. It's arguably impossible to consume 100 percent of the food we buy. But a healthy reminder of the effect food waste has on the environment might help us all to be more conscious of the amount of food we eat—and don't eat. [/QUOTE]
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