User:AlexVonGod/Food rescue

As well as addressing food insecurity, food rescue decreases the production of greenhouse gases in landfills and is an important step in helping cities to become carbon neutral.[6] In recent years, the EU has taken considerable action to combat food loss and waste as part of their Sustainable Development Goals. In 2016 France required supermarkets to donate their unsold food rather than throwing it away.[4] In October 2021, the city of Milan, Italy won the Earthshot Prize for a citywide project to redistribute surplus food from supermarkets, restaurants and companies.[7] In 2023, Brussels, Belgium has begun work on improving the labeling system for "best before" and "use by" dates to help reduce the amount of food that is still safe to consume from being thrown out by consumers.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions
According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, food waste is the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. 98% of food waste ends up in landfills, where they decompose and release methane gas into the atmosphere. Because food waste decays more quickly, food waste contributes more methane emissions than anything else that goes to landfills. Methane gas is over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide in affecting climate change. Wasted food in landfills accounts for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. '''Greenhouse gasses from rotting foods contribute to warmer global temperatures and extreme weather events, sea level rise, as well as ozone depletion and increased risk of diseases.  Food rescue helps fight greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. Every US dollar spent on rescuing food from going to the landfill or compost saves roughly 7.5 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions.'''

'''Between August 2016 and July 2017, Aria, a major resort and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada, collaborated with Three Square Food Bank to launch a food rescue program, rescuing over 24,000 kilograms worth of surplus food from large gatherings. The program provided over 45,000 meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity, as well as preventing approximately 108 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from releasing into the atmosphere, the equivalent of 250 barrels of oil consumed.'''