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Question: What is the yearly percent of food that is wasted in restaurants?
I never thought about how much food is actually wasted every day. Once I actually knew what “wasted food” is I felt so guilty because I actually never thought about it like that. Wasted food is all the food that people don’t eat after meals, food trimmings that are left over from food preparation, the garnish that is put on plated and the food that goes expired in groceries. “According to a study by the University of Arizona Garbage Project, Americans throw away 1.3 pounds of food every day, or 474.5 pounds per year.”
Although I couldn’t find one specific percent of food that is wasted from restaurants I did find out that Americans waste tons of food and even though restaurants and cafeterias are one of the main problems I think restaurants can actually help. When people go to restaurants they don’t over serve you, so there not wasting resources, and if you become to full you can take them home so that they don’t go to waste to. Overall people waste way too much food and should stick to smaller portions of everything.
http://wasteage.com/mag/waste_food_waste_2/
http://www.dailycollegian.com/news/umass-students-contribute-to-the-rising-amount-of-food-waste-1.1728790 |
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