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Monday, April 05, 2010 

Food Wastage

It's heartbreaking. While millions go hungry....millions of pounds simply gets tossed.

Farmers, restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of edible food each year at a time when a growing number of Californians struggle to put food on the table.

More than 6 million tons of food products are dumped annually, enough to fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles 35 times over, state studies have found. Food is the largest single source of waste in California, making up 15.5 percent of the state's waste stream, according to the California Integrated Waste Management Board. -
SFGate

To read more about food waste in California and to view a video on donations, go to www.californiawatch.org.

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