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Wasted Food

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When you don't clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at feeding microbes, [blank] some 222 million metric tons of food a year. That's a quarter of our food. Much of that wasted food ends up in garbage dumps, turned by microbes into methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and one of the [blank] culprits behind global warming. Now government officials in Massachusetts would like to ensure that restaurants, universities, hospitals and other [blank] don't exacerbate that problem.

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When you don't clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at feeding microbes, wasting some 222 million metric tons of food a year. That's a quarter of our food. Much of that wasted food ends up in garbage dumps, turned by microbes into methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and one of the primary culprits behind global warming. Now government officials in Massachusetts would like to ensure that restaurants, universities, hospitals and other large institutions don't exacerbate that problem.
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