Role Of Food Waste In America

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The Food Waste In America wasting food has a very big impact on the environment. Also, the wasted food has to go somewhere and thee water waste is increasing each year. We ually waste more than half of the produce we get from the store. It takes a lot of water to grow gardens and produce. It has become a bad habit in america to waste food and not think twice about it. Like in schools, restaurants and households they all waste so much food each year.

To begin, every time you waste food you have just wasted water too. 13.5 billon tons of food gets wasted each year and 45 trillion gallons of water gets wasted. 70% of the fresh water goes to growing the crops and when we waste food we then waste water. An average household waste &589 a month

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