Dumpster Diving Research Paper

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Jeremy Seifert writes, directs and produces an award winning documentary, Dive! Although dumpster diving has become popular lately, Many people still wince at the idea of sifting food from dumpsters. However the purpose is not to encourage dumpster-diving but to address the bigger issue of food waste in the U.S.
The amount of food waste produced by American grocery chains, a conversation piece that's as charming as it is enlightening. “Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food”. It is believed that this amount of food that’s being wasted every year in U.S can feed a whole country “Haiti” for 5 or more years. Also The Department of Agriculture estimated in 1996 that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could

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