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Today is Blog Action Day; bloggers are uniting today to tell the world that it’s time the United States takes an act on climate change needs. This brings me to discussing an everyday issue in most of our homes that can help tremendously.

How much food does your family waste? We do our share in saving our leftovers for the next day, but at times thing go bad or the kid’s scraps get looked over. 

See video below of my families waste for dinner and dessert:

Two productive things can be done with this waste:

1. For example, RDN Food Waste provides residence the option to recycle food and organic waste. This waste is picked up separately then basic garbage and is processed to soil for future plants. Of course, if you have compost for your garden, you can use the waste for your own home.
2. Bay Area utility recognizes that many restaurants are wasting food. In recognizing this they give restaurants an option to recycle food and organic waste. Over 2300 restaurants are participating and are taking corrective action of employees that don’t use the recycling program. Bay area utility then processes the food and organic waste to methane gas, and use the methane gas for renewable energy. According to Climate Ark website, “the utility now powers its wastewater treatment plant, which serves about 650,000 homes in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, by processing many kinds of waste, including the food scraps.” Also, noted by ”the end of 2010, the utility expects to double its capacity to create power … allowing it to sell more than 5 megawatts of energy to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The utility eventually hopes that about 1 megawatt will come from food scraps, enough to power 1,300 homes…”

With that said do your part! Serve smaller portions to avoid waste and obesity (I’ve lost 10 pounds eating smaller portions). Serving smaller portions will lead to less scraps being left over by the kids. If you are still fighting with waste find a recycling program that best suits you. I will be looking into recycling programs in my area.

For our government, please adopt more programs like RDN Food Waste, and Bay Area Utility.

What ways are you going to do your part with climate change? I would love to know and so would our readers. Please comment below, and subscribe to our updates on the right sidebar. Your comments may be the inspiration to our next article. Thanks in advance!

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