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I just read this and I have to agree with you, now wasting food causes global warming.
Washington (AFP) - In the run-up to Thanksgiving, a holiday to celebrate bountiful harvests, Americans are being urged to stop wasting food so much.
Some 34 million pounds (15.4 million kilograms) of food is thrown away in the United States every year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday.
That represents 21 percent of all food produced, harvested and purchased -- food that is worth an estimated $1.3 billion, at a time when one in six Americans face hunger.
The EPA launched a social media campaign this week to draw attention to the link between food waste and greenhouse gases produced when unwanted food ends up in landfills.
Such waste is a significant source of methane, which the EPA on its website says has "21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide."
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starting to hate Drudge page
