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  1. www.researchgate.net › publication › 357428566_FOOD(PDF) FOOD WASTAGE: CAUSES, IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS - ResearchGate

    Aug 17, 2021 · Food waste mostly comes from cooking and preparing food, as well as from misinterpreting "use by" and "best before" dates. 10% of the 88 million tonnes of food wasted in the European Union (EU) in ...

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  2. www.researchgate.net › publication › 267557944_The(PDF) The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste ...

    Mar 1, 2012 · It is estimated that almost 40% of food in the United States goes uneaten each year (Gunders, 2012 pounds or 31% of the available food supply and $1.30 billion in additional landfill costs (Buzby ...

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  4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 379127344_Food(PDF) Food Waste Reduction and Sustainable Food Systems ...

    Mar 20, 2024 · Food waste is a pressing global concern with profound economic, environmental, and social implications. This paper explores strategies to mitigate food waste across the food supply chain, from ...

  5. www.usda.gov › media › blogFood Waste and its Links to Greenhouse Gases and Climate ...

    Jan 24, 2022 · Jan 24, 2022. Food loss and waste is estimated to be roughly one third of the food intended for human consumption in the United States. When food is discarded, all inputs used in producing, processing, transporting, preparing, and storing discarded food are also wasted. Food loss and waste also exacerbates the climate change crisis with its ...

  6. www.epa.gov › land-research › farm-kitchenFrom Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food ...

    Jan 22, 2024 · Over one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce it and creating a myriad of environmental impacts. Food waste is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the U.S., comprising 24 and 22 percent of landfilled and combusted municipal solid waste, respectively.

  7. www.usda.gov › food-waste-strategyDraft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and ...

    In the United States, the average family of four spends $1,500 each year on food that ends up uneaten.13 More than one-third (nearly 100 million tons) of the U.S. municipal waste stream is organic waste, including food, yard and tree trimmings and other organic materials.14 Sixty-six million tons

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  9. www.usda.gov › US-Food-Systems-PathwaysPATHWAYS TO MORE SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT, AND INCLUSIVE U.S ...

    Jun 21, 2021 · As part of the runup to the UN Food Systems Summit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) hosted the U.S. National Food Systems Dialogues with the objective of facilitating inclusive dialogue in the United States on sustainable food systems. For these discussions, USDA followed the UN three-stage dialogue framework.