“Excess amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are contributing to global warming and climate change”. When you throw away food it breaks down into landfill, along with other organic materials, the waste becomes the main source to the production of methane. Methane traps heat in the atmosphere and is 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
Australia’s food production lifecycle (supply chain) has a significant effect on our greenhouse and carbon footprint. Our natural resources and energy are used to produce, harvest, transport, process, and package, distribute and market all our food products. As soon as the food is wasted, all of the energy and other recourses that we need to buy are lost. This is responsible for 23% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions, which means it has become the second largest emission to generate activity after power stations e.g. agriculture, transport, food production, processing and distribution.
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.nsw.gov.au/love-food/environmental-impacts.aspx
Some major concerns in the world in terms of waste around the world include smell, safety, and pollution. Landfills are places where waste is collected and crushed, before being buried. Landfills of plastic protective liners prevent soil and water pollution and less organic waste goes into manufactured landfills.
All this means less toxic and harmful odours and greenhouse gases get released into the atmosphere. If all landfills and incinerators operated as efficiently and environmentally friendly as this, then the world would become more environmentally friendly. However, it cannot work this was because it isn’t affordable in most countries as there would have to be various landfills which is costly.
Australia’s food production lifecycle (supply chain) has a significant effect on our greenhouse and carbon footprint. Our natural resources and energy are used to produce, harvest, transport, process, and package, distribute and market all our food products. As soon as the food is wasted, all of the energy and other recourses that we need to buy are lost. This is responsible for 23% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions, which means it has become the second largest emission to generate activity after power stations e.g. agriculture, transport, food production, processing and distribution.
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.nsw.gov.au/love-food/environmental-impacts.aspx
Some major concerns in the world in terms of waste around the world include smell, safety, and pollution. Landfills are places where waste is collected and crushed, before being buried. Landfills of plastic protective liners prevent soil and water pollution and less organic waste goes into manufactured landfills.
All this means less toxic and harmful odours and greenhouse gases get released into the atmosphere. If all landfills and incinerators operated as efficiently and environmentally friendly as this, then the world would become more environmentally friendly. However, it cannot work this was because it isn’t affordable in most countries as there would have to be various landfills which is costly.