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Food Waste (Disposal site (Landfills, Large bodies of water #, Composted),…

- - - - Carbon Dioxide
        
        Absorbs heat from the atmosphere #
      - Methane Gas
        
        Absorbs 32 times more heat from the atmosphere than CO2
- - - - Overproduction
      - Government policy
        
        Preventing sale of visually imperfect goods
        
        20% of European potatoes
        
        2%-20% of North American crop yields
      - Marine catch discards
        
        Severed injured or deceased fish
        
        6,824,186 global tonnes of fish discards between 1992 and 2001
    - - Fishermen
      - Farmers
  - - - Normalization of excessive food servings
        
        Supersized restaurant servings
        
        Fast food meal upgrades and combos for discounted prices
      - Boredom of eating the same meal for successive days
      - Wasting home cooked meals to eat out and socialize with friends
      - Combined food waste discard from #
        
        Households
        
        Fast food chains
        
        Hotels
        
        Restaurants
        
        133 billion tons of US food discards annually
      - Expiry dates on packaging
        
        Consumers treating the date as a set time to throw out a food product
      - Culturally appropriate meals in hybrid race households
        
        Cooking traditional foods that some family members will refuse to eat
      - Mixed household dietary preferences
        
        Cooking a vegan meal for some, and a non vegan meal to please others
    - - All individuals who produce food waste