The food you buy and eat doesn't just affect you anymore; it affects the whole planet. Just taking ten or twenty minutes to plan your meals for the week could save tons of food, tons of money, and tons of harmful emissions. Save your leftovers to eat later instead of throwing them away. Many foods taste just as good the second time you eat them! Composting makes a big difference too; the food scraps you don't need can be returned to environment to make more food to feed hungry people in need. Trying out vegetarian or vegan meals, or just cutting down on meat consumption in general, even if it's just one day a week, can save tons of animals, tons of harmful fossil fuel emissions, and tons of water. There are many environmentally conscious ways to get protein, and even the taste of meat has been imitated by companies such as Impossible, Beyond, Morning Star, and more. Eating meat is eating up our planet's resources. Wasting food is wasting our planet's resources. Please consider making some changes. Thank you for reading.

I agree with your post. Throwing away food also throws away the energy and water spent in the process to produce it. The energy used to transport and harvest is also wasted when food ends up in the trash. Harmful gases are also generated when the food waste in the landfill. They release a greenhouse gas called methane that travels into our planet's atmosphere contributing to global warming. Greenhouse gases and energy used could be reduced greatly if only food is not wasted. Composting, eating less or no meat would also help our environment. However, whether or not some people are willing to act on it is another issue.