America makes up roughly 4% of our worlds population, yet we use about 25% of the worlds resources. As our technological advancements increase our quality of living, we strive for more and more, often without thinking about the ones who get left behind. While volunteering at Redlands Family Services, our supervisor Noel starts talking about food waste, as we are sitting in the food pantry. We were talking about how stores often end up throwing out perfectly good food because of the sell by date, and it ends up getting wasted. Canned food for example, is good for up to ten years after the sell by date. Noel also told us that within the past few years, California has adopted a law that states that stores can not throw out food that is actually good, and must donate it. Therefore, Vons has become one of the biggest donating organizations of food to Redlands Family Services. However, not all states have such ordinances, and our thus gives our nation a big problem when it comes to food waste. It is estimated that about 30-40% of the food in the food supply is wasted. 1) That is a lot of food that could be going to people in need. 2) The resources such as power and such that were used to make those foods have thus been wasted, when they could have been used for something more beneficial. 3) Food waste is the single largest component going into municipal landfills, which in turn generates a lot of the methane that comes from them. Food waste is not just a problem in terms of the food and who it could be going to, but also because of the trickle down effects that impact our world as a whole.