Food waste in the United States: A contributing factor toward environmental instability
The world’s population continues to increase at record rates along with corresponding nutritional needs and related agricultural consequences. In the United States, food waste levels serve as dominant components of land-fill masses, oil and freshwater waste, methane and CO2 emissions, damage to wild...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Environmental Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2014.00051/full |