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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1734" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786867315/how-to-reduce-food-waste" target="_blank"><strong>How To Reduce Food Waste - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Food waste is a<a href="https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs" target="_blank"> huge problem</a> in the United States. The good news: Each of us can help solve it.</strong></p><p></p><p>Consider this: A typical household of four <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf" target="_blank">tosses out about $1,600 worth of food</a> annually. Up to 40% of the food that's produced never makes it to our mouths, and all this waste is enough to fill the highest skyscraper in Chicago <em>44 times</em> a year, according to an estimate by the Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile,<a href="https://www.nrdc.org/issues/food-waste" target="_blank"> 1 in 8 Americans struggle with food scarcity.</a></p><p></p><p>Our discarded food often ends up in landfills, where it rots and then starts to emit methane — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. A recent report from the United Nations panel on climate change estimates <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change" target="_blank">food waste accounts for as much as 10% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1734, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786867315/how-to-reduce-food-waste'][B]How To Reduce Food Waste - NPR[/B][/URL] [B]Food waste is a[URL='https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs'] huge problem[/URL] in the United States. The good news: Each of us can help solve it.[/B] Consider this: A typical household of four [URL='https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf']tosses out about $1,600 worth of food[/URL] annually. Up to 40% of the food that's produced never makes it to our mouths, and all this waste is enough to fill the highest skyscraper in Chicago [I]44 times[/I] a year, according to an estimate by the Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile,[URL='https://www.nrdc.org/issues/food-waste'] 1 in 8 Americans struggle with food scarcity.[/URL] Our discarded food often ends up in landfills, where it rots and then starts to emit methane — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. A recent report from the United Nations panel on climate change estimates [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change']food waste accounts for as much as 10% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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