Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Environment?
Cooking Up A Story: • Mar 4, 2010Once this food gets to the landfill, it then generates methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat within our atmosphere. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, landfills account for 34 percent of… Full Story »
