你每天會浪費這麼多食物大綱

While it's true that some cities now require composting, more restaurants are banning unnecessary plastics like straws, and more people are trying to reduce waste in their own homes by using food that would usually be discarded (like broccoli stems), Americans still have a huge problem with waste. The average American wastes about a pound of food everyday-that's about 150,000 tons of food nationwide.

雖然有些城市現在需要堆肥，越來越多的餐館正在禁止吸管等不必要的塑料，越來越多的人正在嘗試在自己家中減少浪費，比如使用通常會被丟棄的食物（比如西蘭花莖）這是事實，但美國人在浪費這一問題上，仍存在巨大問題。每位美國人平均每天浪費一磅食物--全國範圍內則造成15萬噸的食物浪費。

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the University of Vermont and the University of New Hampshire, released these findings this week in scientific journal Plos One. Researchers also found that people with "higher quality diets"-which presumably means people who eat healthier-actually waste more, perhaps because they're buying more produce.

美國農業部與佛蒙特大學和新罕布什爾大學合作，並於本週在科學期刊Plos One上發佈了研究結果。研究人員還發現有着"更高質量飲食"的人羣--大概意味着吃更健康食物的人羣--實際上浪費更多，大概是因爲他們買的農產品更多。

"Eating healthy is important, and brings many benefits, but as we pursue these diets, we must think much more consciously about food waste," Meredith Niles, one of the study's authors, told Newsweek.

"吃得健康十分重要，也會帶來很多益處，但當我們追求這類飲食的時候，我們必須更自覺的考慮食物浪費問題，"該研究的作者之一Meredith Niles對Newsweek說道。

Wasted food does more damage than simply go in the garbage when it could have been eaten or reused. That food drinks up 4 trillion gallons of water and takes up space on 30 million acres of cropland every year.

當本可以被食用或再次使用時，浪費的食物帶來的危害遠大於被扔進垃圾桶。這類食物每年吸收4萬億加侖的水，佔地3000萬英畝的農田。

If you're looking for ways reduce food waste in your own home, you might look to Stephanie Izard, who shared her tips for reusing the parts of vegetables that usually get thrown in the garbage. The staff of the Food & Wine test kitchen are also experts at reducing food waste. Their tips for keeping waste to a minimum can be easily implemented in your kitchen.

如果你正在尋找減少家中食物浪費的方法，那你也許可以諮詢Stephanie Izard，她分享了再次使用蔬菜的方法，這些蔬菜通常會被扔進垃圾桶。Food & Wine實驗廚房的員工也是減少食物浪費的專家。他們關於最大化減少浪費的建議簡單易行，大可在廚房開展。

If you're ready to take your dedication to cleaning up the environment to the next level, then you might consider growing your own food. Even people who live in cities are capable of starting mini vegetable gardens. Brent Preston, author of The New Farm, which chronicles his experience of starting of his own farm in Canada, talked to Food & Wine about 7 ways you can grow vegetables, even if the only extra space you have is a fire escape.

如果你準備好致力於使我們的環境更加潔淨，那你也許就得考慮自己種菜了。即使是生活在城市中的人也可以種一片迷你菜園。《新農場》（The New Farm）一書的作者布倫特·普特斯頓在書中記述了他在加拿大自己開展農場的經歷，對Food & Wine提出了7種自己種蔬菜的方法，即使你家只有逃生通道可以種菜。