The article discusses the report "Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food From Farm to Fork to Landfill," by the Natural Resources Defense Council that found 40 percent of food goes to waste in the U.S., approximately 165 billion U.S. dollars worth of food a year. Dan...
The extent of food waste in America is a cause for serious concern. It is estimated that around 1,217 calories per person per day are squandered. A new study in theJournal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticslooks beyond the caloric value of food waste and focuses on the nutritional ...
Up to 40% of all food in the United States is wasted. Producing food that people don't consume swallows up roughly 20% of America's cropland and agricultural water,and produces greenhouse gas emissions(排放物)equal to 37 million...
The occasion of the actual State of the Union address provides the perfect opportunity to consider our progress on wasted food in America. So…how are we doing? In the US, we’re making great strides in building awareness on how much food is wasted. And we have an ambitious federal goal...
Scientists from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases measured the energy content of America's wasted food. VOA : special.2010.11.23 It has its statutes, sort of the mock constitution, and its rituals that involve basically getting wasted. 他们有自己的规则 一种仿宪...
20. The amount of foodwastedin Europe can feed 200 million people, and the foodwastedin Latin America can feed 300 million a year. 在欧洲被浪费的食物可以养活2亿人,而在拉丁美洲被浪费的食物一年可以养活3亿人。 youdao 21. I'm sorry you had awastedjourney. ...
As you’d expect, the Food Recovery Act of 2015 is chock full of ideas. It is a wish list of sorts, and one that provides a roadmap to give America a chance (so you’re telling us we have a chance??) of reaching that 50 percent reduction goal. Some particu...
by harvesters in the rice fields of Southeast Asia. It gets scraped into the trash in restaurants in North America, and sometimes left to rot on the vine on farms in Europe. In today’s economy, it can be cheaper for farmers to leave perfectly good food in the fields than to sell it...
The per capita use of resources for food losses is largest in North Africa & West-Central Asia (freshwater and cropland) and North America & Oceania (fertilisers). The smallest per capita use of resources for food losses is found in Sub-Saharan Africa (freshwater and fertilisers) and in ...
For a family, you can’t just multiply that amount by the number of family members. And that’s good news — there are economies of scale at play here. A United KingdomÂstudy found that the amount of food wasted per person in a three or more...