5 Simple Ways to Reduce Food Waste Would you care if the cost of
food went up 30 percent? Well, you're paying that premium right
now if you fall within the Department of Agriculture's average
of wasting over a quarter of your food. Go to sleep and lose
weight Wasted food is the second-largest component of municipal
solid waste in the U.S. In 2010, over 34 million tons of food
waste was produced, accounting for almost 14 percent of the
total waste stream. Only a fraction of this waste was recovered
through composting programs, leaving 33 million tons to go into
landfills where the decomposing food produces methane, a
greenhouse gas more than 20 times as damaging as carbon dioxide.
3 Things to Remember Before Hiring a Finger Food Company Timothy
Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in
Anthropology,estimates an average family of four currently
tosses out $590 per year, just in meat, fruit, vegetables and
grain products. Journalist Jonathan Bloom, tracked residential
food waste for three