Food Waste If you knew someone who regularly tossed perfectly good food in the trash
and, as a result, wasted hundreds of dollars a year, you might think that
person was pretty (1)
Such careless wastefulness must be a
sign of (2)
vand moral decline, right? Maybe. The fact is that
throwing out food, and lots of it, is a daily American habit. And many of us do
not think of it as wrong, it's not like we make (3)
trips to the
garbage can to secretly discard food. We simply throw it out, not realizing just
how much we waste per year. An (4)
result of food waste is a
growing, incessantº trash problem in the United States, but the bigger issue is th
year-could feed millions of hungry people. It should make us (5)
we thoughtlessly waste good food, many (6)
Americans living in
mo
But there are ways to combat this problem. France is an (7)
strides in cutting down on waste. For one thing, France has banned supermarket
food to charities. This plan (8)
vls with several other anti-waste pra