Why Care about Food Waste?
By Jan DeWaters and Miranda Wolf
While our efforts to engage students in environmental stewardship tend to focus on hot-button topics like renewable energy, recycling, conserving water, turning off lights, and keeping harmful pollutants out of the environment, the environmental, social, and economic impacts related to food waste are generally unrecognized and largely underappreciated. Few people realize that one-third of the food produced globally ends up uneaten.1 Along with all that wasted food is the wasted farmland, water, labour, and energy resources required to grow, process, package, and transport it. Disposal of that wasted food ultimately uses valuable landfill space and contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions.
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