Food waste is a huge problem in the United States. In fact, approximately one pound of food is wasted per person per day in this country. Throwing away food is harmful to our environment because food that is thrown in the trash gets sent to landfills. In a landfill, food isn’t able to properly break down, […]
How to Reduce Your Waste
We all learned about the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” when we were in school. However, there is now a more holistic approach to reducing waste which includes the 5 R’s – refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. If you can incorporate all five of these concepts into the way you handle all of the ‘stuff’ […]