{"id":3565,"date":"2024-02-03T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=3565"},"modified":"2024-02-03T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:57:10","password":"","slug":"preventing-wasted-food-at-home","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/docs\/preventing-wasted-food-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Wasted Food At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t realize how much food they throw away every day \u2014 from uneaten leftovers to spoiled produce to parts of fruits and vegetables that could be eaten or repurposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/publications\/pub-details\/?pubid=43836\" data-once=\"external-links protected-links\">One-third of all food<\/a>\u00a0in the United States goes uneaten. EPA estimates that in 2019, about 96 percent of households&#8217; wasted food ended up in landfills, combustion facilities, or down the drain to the sewer system. The remainder was composted.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/recycle\/preventing-wasted-food-home#sources\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Preventing food from going to waste is one of the easiest and most powerful actions you can take to save money and lower your climate change footprint by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3566 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/redandpurple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/redandpurple.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/redandpurple-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/redandpurple-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/recycle\/preventing-wasted-food-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t realize how much food they throw away every day \u2014 from uneaten leftovers to spoiled produce to parts of fruits and vegetables&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[74],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3565","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-food-waste"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":110,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"youngreen","author_nicename":"youngreen","author_url":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/author\/youngreen\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Food Waste","term_url":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/docs-category\/food-waste\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3565\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}