800 million people go to bed hungry every night. 45 million of them in the United States, but 40 percent of all food in the United States is wasted – tossed out or left to rot. Meanwhile the large number of hungry people in many different countries is increasing and much of the elevated hardships […]
Archives for July 2015
Bill Gates Turns Poop Water Into Drinking Water
People will always produce sewage or as it’s called – bio-waste. But out of the world’s 7 billion people, only an estimated 4.5 billion people have access to working toilets. Of the 2.5 billion who don’t have proper sanitation, 1.1 billion defecate in the open, contaminating drinking water for millions of people, with horrific consequences. […]
Food Waste – An Economic and Environmental Issue
30 percent of the global food supply is wasted – roughly 1.3 billion tons of food or the retail equivalent of $1 trillion of food each year. Much of that food never even reaches a table. It’s either left in the field to rot, spoiled in transit or thrown out by consumers who typically buy too […]
