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GLOBAL RESOURCES ANALYSIS


SPILLS | FOOD


By the relatively low prices of food till now, especially in the USA, each plate restaurants serves has more food on it than the guest ever can eat during the meal. This is both food waste and health problem creation: overweight is a huge problem in America, that causes a lot of personal problems and increasing financial pressure on the financing of the health system in the USA. In the whole world large percentages of the content of refrigerators doesn't end not in stomachs but in the waste bins. In the whole world a certain percentage of produced food never reach the market and by the food that reached the market also a certain percentage doesn't end by consumers. People start to eat healthier and also less calorie rich. By increasing food prices all this different types food spills will go severe lower levels.


Author: Gijs Graafland


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