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[–] Danbear 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I don't understand these statistics. Maybe its just my house, but we throw out maybe, at most, 5 to 10 pounds of food waste a month and that is a full family.

There aren't left overs, when there is it becomes lunch for work.
Food doesn't go bad because we shop for what we need and can't afford much else.
Breads normally don't spoil because we try to keep carbs at a minimum and only buy bread when we plan to eat it. Sometimes we'll get a "bad loaf" and it will mold a day or two after buying it, but that's rare.
About the only food waste we have is the bits of vegetables that aren't really edible, like onion skins, pepper stems, for the top end of a squash.

I don't know if they are trying to count all the paper/plastic container waste along with the food waste, but they shouldn't if they are. That's not food, its trash. You want to fuss about recycling then fuss about recycling.

Plus and stop me here if I'm wrong, isn't that food going to break down into methane and CO2 anyways? Just because I eat it doesn't mean its magically gone. Its coming back a methane and CO2. Instead of anaerobic bacteria breaking it down in a landfill, (anaerobic bacteria and I are) breaking it down in my stomach.

Until you devise a system where unwanted food gets delivered to people want the food, then I don't really see the point if this fuss. Even if people eat less, they are still going to waste. The solution is to develop a system that utilizes the waste.

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[–] brokenmonkey ago  (edited ago)

Working at a grocery store, there is an insane amount of food wasted. That bit about only one product being left is pretty much true as well. To top it all off, nobody working in a grocery store would necessarily be allowed to just say, "Sell by dates don't actually matter that much." They'd get reprimanded by management and possibly scolded by customers.

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[–] Outamyhead ago 

Worst I normally have to dump out is milk that is actually turning around the date marked on it, and eggs, not because they are old, but my wife freaks out as they are past the date on the packaging, only time I worry about eggs is when the white of the egg is watery, and the yoke is separating from the egg white.