Wasted Water By Kyle Rabin: Article Analysis

States alone, 30% of all food is thrown away each year. That's about 161 billion dollars worth of

With the seemingly unstoppable growth of the world’s population and a projected global population of nine billion by 2050, the matter of whether or not there will be enough food to support the world’s populace is brought into question (Parfitt, et al., 2010). However, amid the concern for an adequate food supply, there is an immense amount of food waste produced by the world, including the United States. In fact, “according to the Natural Resources Defense Council as much as 40 percent of all food produced in the United States never gets eaten and typically ends up in the landfills or goes unharvested in the field “(King, 2015).

Americans account for only five percent of the world’s population, but create half of the globe’s solid waste. Americans toss out the equivalent of $165 billion in food each year. All of that time, energy, and freshwater- for nothing. How can the United States, being so small in number, produce so much waste? Brad Plumer from the Washington Post documented a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council that attempts to track America’s food, from “farm to fork.” Plumer breaks the report down into seven different wasteful places along the American food production line: Farming, post-harvest and packing, processing and distribution, retail and grocery stores, food service and restaurants, households, and disposal.

Some ways we recycle our water is by using it to water golf fields, ball fields, and parks. We also reuse water but putting it in ponds and other streams for our aquatic wildlife ecosystems. We preserve our water by putting it in underground aquifers. We make our water reusable at water reclamation factories that make them clean enough to put them places safely. In conclusion, we use water a lot so it’s a big priority to make sure we don’t waste it. Without our water, our way of living will become a lot harder. Farm food prices will go up because it’ll cost more to use the water to make the

Food waste has an immense negative effect on our economy and even our environment. Our environment is taking a hit from all the extra greenhouse

With all of this water used to grow produce, it is truly a scary thought to consider how much of this water is simply wasted and tossed with the produce that is not deemed “worthy” of being sold and is therefore tossed.

We were not actually discussing the issue of food waste but were talking about the amount of food families in different countries consume in a week. In order to make it clear my professor showed us pictures of different families from around the world with the amount of food they consumed in a week. The families in developing and underdeveloped countries consumed the least amount of food processed and the most out of those families were from Democratic Republic of Congo which is not very surprising but what was the most astonishing fact was that the United States ranked the number one spot in the amount of food intake per week. Comparative to the world’s two most populous countries in the world China and India, United States consume way far more food than it needs. All the surplus food does not serve any benefit to the hungry and poor, instead it is delivered to a dumpster. For example, at a farmers market in Asheville, North Carolina all the unsold tomatoes are dumped (Elizabeth Roytes). These unsold fresh tomatoes are dumped not because they are unsold or are not edible but because there isn’t enough space to store these

When food is wasted, we are wasting a lot of water as well. According to Kyle Rabin's article Wasted Food = Wasted Water, wasting food has become a serious environmental and socioeconomic problem. Food waste has become such a problem that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has started a national Food Waste Challenge. This challenge is to encourage people and places to reduce their food waste. They have been asked to pledge to reduce their food waste by 50 percent. This waste can be personal food waste or a larger establishment, like a restaurant. In Rabin's article he mentions that food waste in New York comprises one-third of the city's more than 20,000 tons of daily refuse.

Water is considered as an essential for human existence. We all can survive without food for some day but no one can live without water at least two days. Human body consists of 70% percent of water and our globe is covered by 69.9% percent of water. But unfortunately the useable fresh water is just 2.5% out of it. Water is a social good, water is an economic good, water has ecological value and water has religious, moral and cultural value.

While the world’s farmers produce enough food to feed the planet, one-third of the food produced for human consumption is not really consumed. Globally, there exists up to 1.3 billion metric tons of uneaten food very year. And in addition to that, growing and transporting that food is estimated to create 3.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, which makes wasted food one of the world’s largest emission contributor.

Wasting food is a bad habit that affects all of society and we continue to implicate ourselves in the problem. Of the total of food loss that is going on about 40 percent is in the household. Overall a typical household of four loses about 600 dollars in food a year. (Jones 11)

The United States is one of the biggest contributors to food waste an estimated 218 billion dollars worth of food is wasted every year in the USA alone. An avenger household in Michigan waste about $1,600 each year on groceries that goes to waste and then gets thrown out do to it being expired or just not wanted. Much of the food waste happens in the foods production and distribution stages, in which food is being thrown away just because it doesn't meet a company standard of color, weight, or shape, but the food is still fresh and very much edible. According to feedingamerica.org the amount of food wasted alone weighs at 72 billion pounds, which makes up about 21 percent of our landfills and 21 percent of the freshwater used all year. More food is thrown into our

Food waste has become a very prominent problem within the United States as it is negatively impacting our environment. Farmers, producers, retailers, and consumers are progressively throwing away more and more food resources, unconsciously contributing to large environmental issues. This increasing food waste fuels climate change and supports the buildup of greenhouse gases, while poorly affecting our economy and the pockets of many families.

Americans throw away billions of pounds of food, worth billions of dollars and enough to feed millions of people each year. Food waste is the single largest component of American landfills. Every year, around 40 percent of all food goes unconsumed in the United States. This amounts to Americans squandering as much as $218 billion annually growing, processing and transporting food that never gets eaten. That is a very vast waste of resources considering all the freshwater, land, fertilizer, and energy used was for nothing. ‘Washington Post’. Even Europe does a better job of curtailing food waste and food waste in Europe alone could feed 200 million hungry people! Food waste is often described as a “farm-to-fork” problem because produce is lost in fields, warehouses, packaging, distribution, supermarkets, restaurants and fridges. How do Americans waste so much food? We purchase too many food products, our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and we buy what is not expected.

There are countless issues that pose danger to the environmental health of the Earth, but one of the most often overlooked problems is food waste. Food waste contributes to droughts as well as other serious economic and climate ramifications. However, there are many things that can be done to resolve this pressing issue.