The purpose of this article is to create awareness about the consequences and causes of food waste and offer solutions to reduce our contribution to it. Food waste is one of the many causes of climate change because the resources used to grow food (such as water and harvest) as well as the transport and packaging are also going to waste. Therefore, food waste leads to the loss of energy. Additionally, when wasted food is sent to landfills and rots, a highly potent greenhouse gas called methane (about 37 million cars worth of emissions) is released into the air. The author mentions that about…