{"id":55198,"date":"2019-06-05T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=55198"},"modified":"2019-08-20T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:29:15","slug":"the-problems-with-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/my-missions\/the-problems-with-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problems With Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Environment Day! There\u2019s no better time than now to start a Mission and help save the planet. Why not start with Food Waste Warrior?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/href=\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48756\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"339.5\" height=\"208.5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-logo.png 679w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-logo-356x220.png 356w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-logo-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/missions\/food-waste-warrior\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48754\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"72.5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button.png 444w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button-300x62.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that a lot of Canadians are wasting food? As a country, we throw out more than $31 billion worth of food each year and that\u2019s a big problem!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55210\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55210 size-full\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww-599x420.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/farm-machine-fww-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo Credit: Dgolnik<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the problem isn\u2019t just the fact that we\u2019re wasting money. Think about all of the stuff that went into getting that food from the farm to your plate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s the electricity used on the farm to feed and house animals<\/li>\n<li>Plus, the energy used to power the machines that tend to the crops<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t forget about the gas used to transport the food to the store<\/li>\n<li>And then there\u2019s also the energy used at the grocery store to keep the food fresh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that energy is wasted when we throw away perfectly good food. To make matters worse, generating energy creates greenhouse gases which are leading to climate change, so wasting energy is definitely not something we should be doing.<\/p>\n<h2><b>But the story doesn\u2019t end there\u2026<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48762\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-mission.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366.7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-mission.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-mission-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter you throw out the food, where does it go? We hope that if you do throw food away it goes in the organics bin or composter, but for a lot of households, it ends of in the trash. No big deal, right? Wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Food that ends up in the garbage hurts the planet:<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48735\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/gull-in-landfill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166.7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/gull-in-landfill.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/gull-in-landfill-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It causes landfills to fill up faster, which means we need to convert more land into new landfill sites sooner<\/li>\n<li>It attracts animals like seagulls and bears, and they can get sick from eating rotten food or hurt themselves by accidentally eating hazardous materials<\/li>\n<li>When the food breaks down, it releases greenhouse gases into the environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>There are a lot of problems that come from wasting food. Will you become a Food Waste Warrior and do your part?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/missions\/food-waste-warrior\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48754\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"72.5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button.png 444w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/food-waste-warrior-accept-button-300x62.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Generously supported by:<\/b><\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-102\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-102\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/public\/content\/wildwire\/Cargill-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"62.9\" class=\" size-full wp-image-55220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cargill-logo.png 350w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cargill-logo-300x94.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/div><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/public\/content\/wildwire\/enbridge-logo-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"59\" class=\" size-full wp-image-47467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/enbridge-logo-2018.png 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/enbridge-logo-2018-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-102 from cache -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out what happens when you throw away food!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1049,586,931],"tags":[49,1139,1080,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-55198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fww","8":"category-my-missions","9":"category-all","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-energy-conservation","12":"tag-food-waste","13":"tag-food-waste-warrior-mission"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}