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1 Why should we care about food waste? - USDA
https://www.usda.gov/foodlossandwaste/why
Municipal solid waste landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States, accounting for approximately 14.1 percent ...
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2 Fight climate change by preventing food waste | Stories - WWF
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/fight-climate-change-by-preventing-food-waste
And if food goes to the landfill and rots, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide. About 6%-8% of all human-caused ...
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3 The Carbon Impact of Food Waste: The Problem With What ...
https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/carbon-impact-food-waste-problem-what-were-not-eating
Methane-producing bacteria begin to decompose the waste and generate methane. At approximately 28 times the global warming potential of carbon ...
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4 Why we must turn food waste into a renewable fuel - CalMatters
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/why-we-must-turn-food-waste-into-a-renewable-fuel/
When the food scraps, yard waste and other biodegradable stuff we throw out is deposited in landfills, it emits methane as it breaks down.
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5 Opinion | Food waste is a vastly overlooked driver of climate ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/07/31/food-waste/
Food waste that decomposes in landfills releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is at least 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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6 Cutting Landfill Methane To Fight Climate Change - NPR
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1012218119/epa-struggles-to-track-methane-from-landfills-heres-why-it-matters-for-the-clima
A seminal U.N. report published in May found that immediate reductions in methane emissions are the best, swiftest chance the planet has at ...
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7 Food Waste, the environment + Climate Change
http://www.cec.org/flwy/food-waste-climate-change/
When food ends up in a landfill, it creates methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. In fact, if global food waste were measured ...
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8 What's the deal with food waste and climate change?
https://foodforward.org/food-waste/whats-the-deal-with-food-waste-and-climate-change/
On average, 22% of landfill waste is food. Food in landfills cannot organically decompose, leading to methane emissions.
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9 Turning Food Waste into Energy (EBMUD) - EPA Archives
https://archive.epa.gov/region9/waste/archive/web/html/food-waste.html
In landfills, organic materials, like food scraps and yard trimmings, are broken down by bacteria to produce methane. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ...
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10 Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/climate/global-food-waste-solutions.html
Food waste, when it rots in a landfill, produces methane gas, which quickly heats up the planet. But it's a surprisingly tough problem to solve.
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11 Landfills around the world release a lot of methane - study
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/landfills-around-world-release-lot-methane-study-2022-08-10/
LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Decomposing food waste is releasing thousands of tonnes of planet-warming methane gas at landfills in Buenos ...
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12 What Food Waste, Climate Change & Methane Gas Have in ...
https://foodhero.com/blogs/food-waste-and-climate-change
Anaerobic decomposition produces methane gas. And, since it takes so long for that decomposition to happen, food waste in landfills just ...
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13 How cutting your food waste can help the climate - BBC Future
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200224-how-cutting-your-food-waste-can-help-the-climate
How you throw your food away also matters. Organic matter rotting in a landfill releases methane, a greenhouse gas several times more potent ...
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14 Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas ...
https://ourworldindata.org/food-waste-emissions
Food losses and waste – in supply chains and by consumers – account for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food.
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15 Climate and Resources - ReFED
https://refed.org/food-waste/climate-and-resources/
Wasting food has an astonishingly massive greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. This is due to the methane produced from food decaying in landfills, the resources ...
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16 How Food Waste is Contributing to Climate Change
https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/food-waste-how-its-contributing-to-climate-change-and-how-you-can-help-landfill-methane/65-290b6b13-7b99-4d5e-8e5a-123d422b6859
All that wasted food is taking up more space in our nation's landfills than anything else and producing methane emissions linked to climate ...
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17 NASA at Your Table: Where Food Meets Methane
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/esnt/nasa-at-your-table-where-food-meets-methane
When food enters a bovine's stomach, it undergoes a process called enteric fermentation: microbes and bacteria partially break down the food ...
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18 Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the ...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-waste-land/
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, landfills account for 34 percent of all methane emissions in the U.S.—meaning that the ...
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19 Waste Not? Some States Are Sending Less Food to Landfills
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/07/08/waste-not-some-states-are-sending-less-food-to-landfills
Food waste in landfills produces the third largest amount of methane emissions in the United States (17%), after petroleum production (30%) and ...
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20 Here's one easy way to tackle climate change that you may ...
https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz/heres-one-easy-way-to-tackle-climate-change-that-you-may-not-know-about/
When food is thrown away it ends up being buried in a landfill. Here it decomposes without oxygen, and releases methane – a harmful greenhouse gas which is ...
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21 What you need to know about food waste and climate change
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/what-you-need-know-about-food-waste-and-climate-change
The issue goes beyond hunger: Producing the food we waste takes land, water, labor and other valuable resources. To add insult to injury, food ...
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22 Composting to avoid methane production – Western Australia
https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-methane-production-%E2%80%93-western-australia
Inefficient composting processes can result in anaerobic (rather than aerobic) conditions which produces methane and nitrous oxide. Incomplete ...
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23 From farm to plate to the atmosphere: food-related emissions
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/from-farm-to-plate-to-the-atmosphere-reducing-your-food-related-emissions/
Basically, rotting food produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. By sending this food waste to landfill, Australians are generating ...
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24 The problem of food waste | Change for Climate
https://changeforclimate.ca/story/the-problem-of-food-waste
Wasted food that ends up in the garbage, and ultimately the landfill, produces methane—a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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25 Waste and greenhouse gases: Canada's actions
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/municipal-solid/waste-greenhouse-gases-canada-actions.html
When organic wastes – such as food, yard and paper – are disposed in landfills, they produce methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
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26 The Environmental Impact and Formation of Meals ... - NCBI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571599/
The EPA reports that in the US, the decaying of solid waste in landfill accounts for 34% of human-related methane production [10], 16% of which ...
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27 Food Waste to Energy - Biogas - University of Florida
https://biogas.ifas.ufl.edu/foodwaste/faqs.asp
A major source of this organic material in landfills is food waste, and by diverting food waste, methane emissions can be significantly reduced. In addition to ...
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28 Why Collect Food Scraps? - Streets & Recycling
https://www.cityofmadison.com/streets/food-scraps/collectFood.cfm
Methane Gas Emissions ... As organic material slowly decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane gas. While methane is captured and used to make electricity at ...
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29 Organic Materials Management and Climate Change
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/climate/organics/
Anaerobic decomposition of organic materials in landfills produces methane (CH4), a greenhouse gas with global warming potential approximately 85 times ...
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30 'Food waste is a big cause of methane emissions. Companies ...
https://www.reutersevents.com/sustainability/food-waste-big-cause-methane-emissions-companies-must-not-wait-governments-act
Not only is this an unconscionable waste of the world's resources when 815 million people go hungry, but when food goes to landfill and rots, ...
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31 Landfills are "super emitters" of powerful greenhouse gas ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/landfills-are-super-emitters-of-powerful-greenhouse-gas-methane-satellite-data-finds/
When organic waste like food, wood or paper decomposes, it emits methane into the air. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane ...
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32 Food rescue diverts excess food to people in need
https://www.hennepin.us/climate-action/what-hennepin-is-doing/food-rescue
An estimated 17% of all methane emissions come from landfills. Methane made up only 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions nationwide in 2018. However, it ...
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33 Food waste worse than plastic for climate change says Zero ...
https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/press-release/food-waste-worse-plastic-climate-change-says-zero-waste-scotland
When food waste ends up in landfill, it rots, producing methane - one of the most damaging greenhouse gases driving up climate change.
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34 FAO - News Article: Food wastage: Key facts and figures
https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/196402/icode/
A low percentage of all food wastage is composted: much of it ends up in landfills, and represents a large part of municipal solid waste. Methane emissions from ...
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35 How our trash contributes to climate change — and what we ...
https://www.catf.us/2022/09/how-our-trash-contributes-to-climate-change/
Waste sector methane emissions stem from the breakdown of organic waste — food and yard waste, as well as paper, cardboard, and wood — in ...
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36 Organics: Compost vs. Landfill - Resource Recycling Systems
https://recycle.com/organics-compost-vs-landfill/
The methane produced by the anaerobic decomposition of food waste in landfills is proven to be significantly more potent than the carbon dioxide of aerobic ...
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37 California enacts food waste law to reduce methane emissions
https://www.denver7.com/news/national/from-landfills-to-the-soil-california-food-waste-law-aims-to-reduce-methane-emissions
Food waste accounts for 20% of methane emissions in California. It's the third-largest source, trailing behind dairy manure and methane- ...
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38 Landfill Methane Capture - Project Drawdown
https://drawdown.org/solutions/landfill-methane-capture
Most landfill content is organic materials: food scraps, yard trimmings, junk wood, wastepaper. Their decomposition produces biogas, which includes methane, a ...
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39 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from food we ...
https://updates.panda.org/driven-to-waste-report
Based on the new data, global food waste contributes 10% of our global greenhouse gas emissions, not the 8% that was previously thought, and ...
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40 California targeting food waste in battle against climate change
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/585149-california-targeting-food-waste-in-battle/
Landfills emit huge amounts of methane, a harmful greenhouse gas, every year. A new state law will require Californians to separate organic ...
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41 Taking Food Out of the Trash
https://www.wsac.org/taking-food-out-of-the-trash/
Much of the food waste is viable and safe food that people or animals could consume. Unfortunately, decomposing food waste in landfills is a significant source ...
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42 Ban Food Waste to Landfill - Vision 2020
https://www.vision2020.info/ban-food-waste/
Efficient processing of food waste can reduce emissions, capture energy and recycle essential yet finite nutrients. When food waste is sent to landfill, not ...
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43 Take action waste - Earth Day Initiative
http://www.earthdayinitiative.org/waste-1
Over 51 percent of the trash that goes to landfills (including food, paper, yard waste and wood) is compostable. Once food reaches the landfills, it begins to ...
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44 It's Time America Stopped Throwing Out Food Waste
https://www.governing.com/next/its-time-america-stopped-throwing-out-food-waste
Buried under dirt and other trash, discarded food generates methane as it decomposes, as do other organic materials such as yard waste and paper ...
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45 Data point: the dirty truth about wasted food - Economist Impact
https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/ecosystems-resources/data-point-the-dirty-truth-about-wasted-food
Food waste that ends up in landfills releases methane (CH4), a GHG with a global warming potential approximately 28–36 times higher than carbon ...
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46 What does food waste have to do with climate change?
https://www.ecologicprograms.org/blog/foodwasteproblem
Not only is wasted food a waste of the water and energy it took to produce that food, but food that sits in a landfill releases methane, a ...
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47 Food Waste - NRDC
https://www.nrdc.org/food-waste
Most wasted food ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a greenhouse gas that is up to 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
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48 Food Waste Diversion from Landfills: A Cost–Benefit ... - MDPI
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/11/6753/pdf
Keywords: food waste; landfill; methane; aerobic digester; composting; greenhouse gas; cost. 1. Introduction. The disposal of food waste in ...
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49 Reduce Food Waste | Keep Truckee Green
https://www.keeptruckeegreen.org/home/reduce-food-waste/
Wasted food ends up rotting in landfills emitting 16% of U.S. methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. On the bright side, the solution is simple.
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50 Top Reasons to be Obsessed with Methane and Reducing ...
https://gogreeninitiative.org/blog/top-reasons-to-be-obsessed-with-methane-reducing-food-waste/
Food waste in landfills produces methane, a gas with a global warming potential 21x greater. A leading cause of methane? Food waste in landfills ...
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51 Greenhouse Gases and the Role of Composting
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument?id=198
metric dry ton of food that goes to a landfill may generate .25 metric tons of methane in the first 120 days. Thus composting this food waste reduces ...
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52 Backgrounder: Methane Emissions from Waste - Anaergia
https://www.anaergia.com/backgrounder-methane-emissions-from-waste/
Methane emissions from landfills and wastewater represent a much larger portion of the world's methane problem than is typically understood.
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53 The Environmental Impact of Food Waste | Move For Hunger
https://moveforhunger.org/the-environmental-impact-of-food-waste
More than 40% of the food in the United States each year is wasted. ... Food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane – a more ...
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54 The reason to keep food out of landfills and what to do with it ...
http://weeksforearth.com/food-in-landfills/
Trapped without air, food decomposing in landfill actually produces methane, a greenhouse gas over 20x as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat.
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55 The methane emissions crisis demands a faster ... - Waste Dive
https://www.wastedive.com/news/opinion-methane-emissions-organics-gaia-ribeiro-broomhead/623369/
Organic waste prevention is the most powerful tool for reducing methane emissions in the waste sector. Particularly for food waste, prevention ...
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56 CS4. Divert food waste from landfills
https://www.municipalsustainability.org/cs4-divert-food-waste-from-landfills/
Most food scraps are tossed in the trash and eventually wind up in a landfill where food waste degrades in an anaerobic environment and is released as methane, ...
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57 Does Composting Produce Methane Gas?
https://www.moonshotcompost.com/does-composting-produce-methane-gas-greenhouse-gases/
Yes, composting does create methane. Any time organic materials (like food scraps) decompose, they can be expected to produce methane and carbon dioxide.
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58 Landfills have a huge greenhouse gas problem. Here's what ...
https://ensia.com/features/methane-landfills/
October 25, 2016 — We take out our trash and feel lighter and cleaner. But at the landfill, the food and yard waste that trash contains is decomposing and ...
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59 Landfills around the world release a lot of methane—study
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1644861/landfills-around-the-world-release-a-lot-of-methane-study
Decomposing food waste is releasing thousands of tons of planet-warming methane gas at landfills in Buenos Aires, Delhi, Mumbai, and Lahore, ...
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60 Food Waste | The Nutrition Source
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sustainability/food-waste/
Reduced methane emissions from landfills and a lower carbon footprint. Better management of energy and resources, preventing pollution involved in the growing, ...
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61 Rutgers Researchers Explore Policy Options to Reduce Food ...
https://njclimateresourcecenter.rutgers.edu/rutgers-researchers-explore-policy-options-to-reduce-food-waste-methane-emissions/
... policy aimed at reducing food waste, contributing to food security, and reducing landfill organic wastes in an effort to reduce methane emissions, ...
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62 Satellite data finds landfills are methane 'super emitters'
https://apnews.com/article/astronomy-science-planets-india-lahore-8f68da60da9c8a9947b523190aa4d3d0
When organic waste like food, wood or paper decomposes, it emits methane into the air. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane ...
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63 Managing Food Waste for Sustainability: Landfills versus ...
https://kb.wisc.edu/dairynutrient/375fsc/page.php?id=48783
One of the main benefits of landfilling is the optional gas capture and energy reuse system. Methane and carbon dioxide capture has the ability ...
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64 Environmental Impact - Food Rescue
https://www.foodrescue.net/environmental-impact.html
The environmental problem created by food waste is the methane gas it emits while in our landfills as seen below in our food waste environmental education ...
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65 Seven Key Solutions to Landfill Methane
https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Seven-Key-Solutions-to-Landfill-Methane_May-18-2021.pdf
greenhouse gas emissions (2). Reducing supply chain losses and consumer wastage means fewer emissions in food production and less food going to disposal ( ...
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66 Stop Food Waste Day April 27 - Wisconsin DNR
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/newsroom/release/56706
When organic waste breaks down in landfills, it emits significant amounts of methane, one of the main contributors to global warming. Landfills ...
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67 Fight Food Waste and Fight Climate Change | earthday365
https://earthday-365.org/fight-food-waste-fight-climate-change/
The problem of food waste in landfills is serious, but there is good news: methane emissions coming from landfills is a solvable problem. We can ...
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68 California is banning food from landfills and turning it into ...
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/12/california-is-banning-food-from-landfills-and-turning-it-into-energy-instead
All organic waste, including banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies, emit methane as they decay. And in its first 20 years in the ...
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69 Opinion: Yes, we can help reduce greenhouse gases
https://coloradosun.com/2022/08/03/food-waste-methane-greenhouse-gas-climate-change-opinion/
It's as simple as minimizing the amount of food that we waste. Less food in the landfill means less methane in the atmosphere.
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70 Food Waste By The Numbers
https://www.wedontwaste.org/food-waste-by-the-numbers/
The food that ends up in a landfill ends up producing methane, a greenhouse gas that is up to 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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71 Organics - TN.gov
https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/sw-mm-organics.html
Organics (carbon-based materials) currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away. Besides taking up valuable landfill space, organics produce a ...
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72 F- Food for Thought - SCARCE
https://www.scarce.org/f-food-for-thought/
Best of all, reducing food scrap in landfill means less methane gas emitted by landfill–the third-largest source of human-related methane ...
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73 Food Waste Is Trashing the Planet
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/takeextinctionoffyourplate/waste/index.html
In the United States, uneaten food is the single largest source of trash in landfills [25], which account for 18 percent of the country's methane pollution, ...
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74 Sustainability Impact - Reducing Food Waste - Do Good Chicken
https://dogoodchicken.com/sustainability/
Food in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 26 times more potent than CO2, accelerating climate change. Our solution saves food from going to ...
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75 Why should I compost? Won't my food scrap biodegrade in the ...
https://www.rcbc.ca/resources/faqs/composting5
-Engineered landfills are anaerobic environments, meaning without oxygen. When organic materials break down in anaerobic environments, methane gas is ...
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76 Does food waste break down in landfills? Here's ... - Brightly Eco
https://brightly.eco/blog/food-waste-landfill
"There's no oxygen in a landfill, so organic matter like paper, wood, and food scraps are stuck in a limbo state, releasing methane," Kellogg ...
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77 Reducing Wasted Food Basics
https://wsra.net/reduce-food-waste/
More than 96 percent of the food we throw away ends up in landfills. In 2011, we put more than 36 million tons of food waste in the landfill. Once in landfills, ...
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78 Turning a climate problem into a food solution | Stanford News
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/11/22/turning-climate-problem-food-solution/
Stanford researchers reveal how to turn a global warming liability into a profitable food security solution ... Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas ...
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79 Landfill Methane Emissions Reduction : Action on Climate ...
https://www.oregon.gov/deq/ghgp/Pages/Landfill-Methane-Emissions-Reduction.aspx
Typical landfill gas is made up of around 50% methane. Methane is a very strong greenhouse gas, more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in the ...
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80 Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health ...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00364
Fugitive landfill gas emissions are based on food waste-specific data in ... such as food waste that releases substantial fugitive methane, ...
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81 Methodology for the Avoidance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...
https://verra.org/methodologies/methodology-for-the-avoidance-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-through-composting-of-food-waste-using-insects/
The proposed methodology demonstrates the accounting procedure for the reduction in methane emissions from landfills by diverting food waste to a composting ...
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82 Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
https://www.climateone.org/audio/cow-poop-and-compost-digesting-methane-menace
10% is from manure. The second big emitter is food waste rotting in landfills, which accounts for 17% of national methane emissions. California ...
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83 Reducing Wasted Food from Households
https://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/98102.html
Most of our wasted food ends up in a landfill where methane gas is generated as it decomposes in the absence of air. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ...
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84 Food Waste - Waste Management - Illinois.gov
https://www2.illinois.gov/epa/topics/waste-management/Pages/food-waste.aspx
Food waste accounts for as much as 20 percent of that 19 million tons, which is more than any other single waste stream found in landfills. When food waste ...
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85 Food Waste Greenhouse Gas Calculator
https://watchmywaste.com.au/food-waste-greenhouse-gas-calculator/
In Australia 8.2 million tonnes of food waste is generated each year, most of which ends up in landfill. Once in landfill, food waste breaks down and emits ...
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86 Food Waste for Thought | NEEF
https://www.neefusa.org/weather-and-climate/climate-change/food-waste-thought
When food ends up in landfills, it contributes to the third largest source (17%) of human-induced methane emissions in the United States.
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87 Connections: CO2 Math For Food Waste Transport - BioCycle
https://www.biocycle.net/connection-co2-math-for-food-waste-transport/
In summary, at a relatively well-run landfill, each dry ton of food scraps would emit about 0.75 tons CO2 equivalent of methane.
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88 Emissions impacts of landfilling food waste - NSW EPA
https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/-/media/epa/corporate-site/resources/wasteregulation/fogo/22p4163-emissions-impacts-landfilling-food-waste.pdf
landfills with high gas recovery and energy generation cannot capture much of the methane emitted by food. Diverting food from landfill avoids these ...
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89 EPA Awards Food Lifeline for Project to Reduce Methane and ...
https://www.waste360.com/waste-energy/epa-awards-food-lifeline-200000-project-reduce-methane-food-waste-south-seattle
Anaerobic digestion is a process in which microorganisms break down organic materials, such as food scraps, manure, and sewage sludge, in the ...
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90 Chapter 2: Landfill Gas Basics
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/landfill/html/ch2.html
Organic wastes include food, garden waste, street sweepings, textiles, and wood and paper products. Bacteria decompose organic waste in four phases, and the ...
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91 Scientists say landfills release more planet-warming methane ...
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/11/landfills-release-more-planet-warming-methane-than-previously-thought/
When organic waste like food, wood or paper decomposes, it emits methane into the air. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane ...
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92 Food Waste and Landfill : How Can We Prevent Waste?
https://myethicalchoice.com/en/journal/food-loss/food-waste-and-landfill/
Food that is being left in the landfill produces methane, which causes harm for our environment as greenhouse gas. Methane (CH4) can hold 25 ...
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93 Reduce Food Waste at Home - Rare
https://rare.org/program/climate-culture/reduce-food-waste/
Most of our food waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is up to 36 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
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94 Food wastage in SA, and why it harms the planet and ... - Averda
https://www.averda.com/rsa/news/food-wastage-in-sa-and-why-it-harms-the-planet-and-what-you-can-do-to-help
When it decomposes in landfills, rotting food releases the gas methane, a 'greenhouse' gas many times more damaging for the climate than carbon dioxide.
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