Iowa Medical Center Devises Strategy To Reduce Food Waste

The research of United Nations Environment Program in 2015 shows that the industrialized countries of the world waste almost as much as entire amounts of food produced to feed the Sub-Sahara African region. It is disappointing that people are dying of hunger in parts of the globe while other parts are wasting food unnecessarily. Furthermore, production of food waste is causing environmental hazards. Now is the time for people to understand the consequences of food waste and the techniques that can help control it.

Firstly, people should have a brief knowledge of various causes that leads to the production of food waste. The generation of food waste can start right from the field if crops are left unharvested. In addition to this, restaurants

The article “Iowa medical center devises strategy to reduce food waste” discusses the strategy that Iowa medical center developed to reduce food loss; she points out that, “The hospital switched to compostable food containers and began using a pulper to pulverize its leftover food waste, which then went to the city landfill each week for composting“(Mckinee 2). If a hospital that produces food on a large scale can do this, why cannot we? We can also use our wastes to enrich the soil in our gardens or flower beds. This can help us to protect our environment as we are improving the soil structure.

The most important aspect for the management of food waste can be donating. A group environmental engineers in their article “An Overview of Food Waste Management: Current Status and Future Perspective" talk about the challenges that developing countries have been facing on food supply and food waste (Lin et al. 4-5). While some parts of the world are facing problems like sanitation and environmental harm due to food waste, some parts of the world are still looking for food to feed the citizens. Your small hand can change a day for someone. It’s worth giving food to someone rather than throwing it in a trash

On ‘e360.yale.edu,’ freelance environmental journalist Rachel Cernansky writes, “An increasing number of sewage treatment plants in the U.S. and Europe are processing food waste in anaerobic bio-digesters, keeping more garbage out of landfills, reducing methane emissions, and producing energy to defray their operating costs.” This can be a significant step in food waste management if all the industrialized countries can focus on anaerobic bio-digestion. However, there are some problems in implementing this. In the article “Assessment of the state of food waste treatment in the United States and Canada”; the writers write,” However, there are a number of implementation issues that must be addressed, principally project economics and feedstock purity” (Levis et al. 6). Food waste will no longer be a problem if industrialized countries can focus on this