Since the last blog post, I’ve decided to do my research paper on food waste and how to utilize excess food to our advantage. As I dig into this topic, I’m finding that most foods that are still edible and usable are being thrown away by not only supermarkets but also common households. An average American person throws away about 40 percent of their food. That’s $165 billion dollars worth of food waste being feed to landfills each year. I’m finding good, informative resources for my paper, but there still a question I’m not quite sure if there’s a solution to.
Since the beginning of our research assignment, I wondered if there was a way to utilize excess food to feed hungry starving people on a global scale. Solutions that I’ve found were more for what the average individual can do, such as save leftover food, or buying what we only need. There’s also the option of donating the food to charities/organizations. However, there hasn’t been any methods to reduce food waste that would also fix world hunger. Maybe because the approach may seem far-fetched, but I believe there’s a way to do this. I’ll try to continue researching on this but if you guys have anything that might be helpful please leave a link, I’d appreciate it!
At first, I was thinking about using food waste from public trashcans to recreate food, but that wouldn't be a great idea considering the bacteria some food might contain.
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