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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1688" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/11/30/783001327/chew-on-this-farmers-are-using-food-waste-to-make-electricity" target="_blank"><strong>Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>As the season of big holiday meals kicks off, it's as good a time as any to reflect on just how much food goes to waste.</strong></p><p></p><p>If you piled up all the food that's not eaten over the course of a year in the U.S., it would be <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440825159/its-time-to-get-serious-about-reducing-food-waste-feds-say" target="_blank">enough to fill a skyscraper in Chicago about 44 times</a>, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.</p><p></p><p>And, when all this food rots in a landfill, it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. In fact, a recent report from the United Nations from a panel of climate experts estimates that <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change" target="_blank">up to 10 percent of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food waste</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1688, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/11/30/783001327/chew-on-this-farmers-are-using-food-waste-to-make-electricity'][B]Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity - NPR[/B][/URL] [B]As the season of big holiday meals kicks off, it's as good a time as any to reflect on just how much food goes to waste.[/B] If you piled up all the food that's not eaten over the course of a year in the U.S., it would be [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440825159/its-time-to-get-serious-about-reducing-food-waste-feds-say']enough to fill a skyscraper in Chicago about 44 times[/URL], according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And, when all this food rots in a landfill, it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. In fact, a recent report from the United Nations from a panel of climate experts estimates that [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change']up to 10 percent of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food waste[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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