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SUBMITTER: Cuellar AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2922696 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cuéllar Amanda D AD Webber Michael E ME
Environmental science & technology 20100801 16
This work estimates the energy embedded in wasted food annually in the United States. We calculated the energy intensity of food production from agriculture, transportation, processing, food sales, storage, and preparation for 2007 as 8080 +/- 760 trillion BTU. In 1995 approximately 27% of edible food was wasted. Synthesizing these food loss figures with our estimate of energy consumption for different food categories and food production steps, while normalizing for different production volumes, ...[more]