Beauty is skin deep, but ugly produce causes much deeper.
Waste Essay. Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays. (FAO 2013, 6). In New York City (NYC) it is estimated that businesses “produce more than 650,000 tons of food waste annually” (Turso 2017). This specific food waste is classified as food scrap, cooked food which is still edible, but no longer useful to the business due to a myriad of reasons.
Checked Out, a new report by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Ugly Fruit and Veg Campaign, found that 9 out of the 10 largest U.S. grocery companies haven’t taken the first step to take responsibility for their contribution to food waste: publicly tracking and reporting total wasted food. And fewer than half have made a specific commitment to fighting food waste.
But there’s hope thanks to companies like Imperfect Produce, which offers a genius subscription produce box that benefits both farmers and consumers, helping to ensure less food is thrown out. In essence, the startup sources “imperfect” produce that would otherwise have gone to waste from farms and delivers it straight to consumers each week (and for 30-50% cheaper than in-store, to boot).
Imperfect Foods delivers groceries on a mission. Shop produce, groceries, and snacks up to 30% less than grocery store prices. We deliver to the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Midwest, East Coast, and South. Coming soon to the Southwest and Southeast.
In the US, we waste roughly 40 percent of all the food we produce. This is totally unnecessary — and it’s an environmental disaster not to reduce food waste. Food production is a resource-intensive process, requiring water, energy, land, soil, human labor and an elaborate web of production, processing and distribution infrastructure. When we throw away food, all these resources are.
We as a society waste a ton of food, by some accounts 40% of everything we produce. It takes a lot of money, time, effort, water, and fertilizer to grow the fruits and veggies we throw away. A few.
This essay will explore some causes of this and propose ways to solve the problem.To begin with, different food producers are convinced that their products will be sold better if they pack them in small-sized boxes and packets. These colourful and attractive packs go straight to the trashcan; the number of packs is growing along with the consumer growth. The population in the world is booming.