Our Own Food Wasted

Abstract

In this paper, I take a look into the issue of food waste and how it negatively impacts the people, economy, and environment at a community level, specifically in South Bend, Indiana. It is explained how generating food waste in a community prevents it from being sustainable and how it negatively impacts each of the four system conditions of sustainability as described by The Natural Step's Sustainability Primer. Ideas are discussed about what citizens can do at the individual level as well as potential programs to be started or maintained that can track then cut down food waste within the community.