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Food waste have many connections some of them really don´t matter to much but others impact us, some of the connections are with the health others with the land and others with the global warming, at the side of the health we have the anorexia this contributes to the food waste because some people that suffer this disease throw the food that they are not going to eat away so when they don´t eat they began the process of anorexia, in the land side we have the deforestation that is produces because of the space of land needed to create and manufacture food so they need to deforest to open a space for the fabric that will manufacture food and in the global warming its produce by the decompositions of the food that let out gases that affect the environment and do green house effects that is global warming, so in conclusion we now know what are the connections of food waste so imagine all this connection in the future the anorexia will increase there will be not trees so the CO2 will increase and in conclusion we will put an end to the earth. ( damage the earth ) Daniel Vargas ==

VIDEOS == media type="youtube" key="zyv_uR4Ru2M" width="425" height="350" This video is about the different connections or we can say causations for that a food waste function, we can say that the food waste affects global warming and the rivers that contaminate, the production of food requires many land and the deforestation is done. Daniel Vargas

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[] This link is about all the connections that the food waste have, but specially they talk about the decomposing food that throw away gas emissions and able the green house effects, another connection is with the money, that only to the Americans it cost 1 billion alone to process the garbage of food waste. Daniel Vargas

 The impact of domestic food waste on climate change In the US, a report in Plos One at the end of last year found that per capita food waste has progressively increased by 50 percent since 1974 reaching more than 1400 calories per person per day or 150 trillion calories per year. Food waste now accounts for more than one quarter of the total freshwater consumption and 300 million barrels of oil per year. The study funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - //The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact //, found that 40 percent of all the [|food produced]  in the US is thrown out. According to the CDC, Americans consume about 2600 calories a day on average. Based on that estimate, 1400 calories is roughly a meal and a half of food wasted every day (or a Big Mac meal with a large Coke). The amount of food waste generated in the US is huge. It is the third largest waste stream after paper and yard waste. In 2008, about 12.7 percent of the total municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in America was food scraps. Less than three percent of that 32 million tonnes was recovered and recycled. The rest - 31 million tonnes - was thrown away into landfills or incinerators, according to the [|Environmental Protection Agency] . Over in the UK, things don't fair much better. Each year, 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK. This equates to a mountain of leftovers, enough to fill 4700 Olympic-sized swimming pools, says the government's anti-waste arm, [|Wrap] . Of this food, 5.3 million tonnes could have been eaten. Reducing food waste is a major issue and not just about good food going to waste; wasting food costs the average family with children GBP£680 a year and has serious environmental implications too.
 * It is estimated that food wasted by the US and Europe could feed the world three times over. Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. Every tonne of food waste prevented has the potential to save 4.2 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road. **
 * Survey on food **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> A new survey in the UK by the business intelligence company, Retail Active has found that fruit, salad and vegetables are the most wasted items in the weekly shopping basket, with bananas being the most wasted item, closely followed by fresh milk. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The data found that people who live cities generally waste the most food but the worst culprits are city-dwelling single men, aged between 25 and 35, who waste food worth an average of GBP£17.43 a month. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Retail Active, says the South East of England has the highest food waste tally, second is the North West and the area with the least wastage is Scotland. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It says a family of four throws away an average of GBP£15.70 worth of food every month but people aged over 57 are the least wasteful, throwing away an average of just GBP£3.36 per month, the British paper <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|The Telegraph] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> reports.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Also high on the wastage list was fresh meat and uneaten prepared food. Tinned food is the least wasted. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Retail Actives used a representative sample of 2000 people, to find nearly three quarters of the responders said they believed their food waste had little or no consequence for the environment. Forty percent actually think food waste is good for the economy because it keeps production moving. Seventy seven percent said they do not consider the impact on the global environment when buying food. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The main reasons for food waste were identified as poor planning, busy lifestyles, bad habits, laziness and too large portion sizes for both ready to eat and prepared food. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Only six percent of the purchasers polled checked sell-by dates but of those that did, the vast majority, 92 percent, chose food from the rear of the shelf to get maximum food freshness. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Food wastage is an issue all around the world, not just in the US and the UK.

Judie Humphires

In This Document is shown that the food waste has no only impact in communities but in the climate or in the world if you throw out a food the food will decompose and throw out gases that can affect the ozone layer, and occurs the green house effects, another thing that can affect the climate is that some of the food waste we throw to the trash can go to the rivers.

Daniel Vargas

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( How does food waste connected to other things ? ) 16/05/2011 The food waste is connected to many other things, we can say food have a great impact on the society one thing that food waste affects the society is by damaging the environment, it consist in the production of food that sometimes decompose so the gases that are in it blow away in the air, another of this impact damaging the environment is that sometimes the food that we waste go into the rivers or lakes and when the process of evaporation the rain should be contaminated as well. Daniel Vargas