Ones Trash Is Anothers Treasure Essay, Research Paper
Everyone sees all the malnutrition children dying overseas because thy
cant afford to purchase food for themselves or their families. Everyone also
sees the people of America sending food and other relief items overseas to
aid them. But there is a flip side to that coin which anyone can see by
walking into one of Americas many restaurants. People can witness
Americans spending allot of money on food then throwing half of it away.
Most of the food that is wasted is for the most part good edible food.
As in the case of McDonalds the wasted food is untouched. Scott said in a
recent discussion in class ?They make us throw away the sandwiches after
ten minutes because they?re not fresh.? Another girl in class mentioned that
people will buy an expensive plate and only eat half go what they pay for and
end up trashing the rest. Others say ?why throw away the food lets take it
home? they don?t realize that the Styrofoam box is trashed when they get
home. People really need to moderate what they order so they don?t have to
take it all home or worse throw it away. After a busy night at the Japanese
restaurant Miyako you see first hand all the wasted food piled up in a fifty
five gallon trash bucket. If you also get the honor of washing the dishes you
get to shove platefuls of food down the drain
Why does everyone waste so much food? Well in Scotts case at
McDonalds most of the people don?t want to wait that extra minute and a
half therefore they have to make more food than the amount of people that
come through the restaurant. sometimes people order something they don?t
like and end up wasting it but even that adds up to a lot of wasted food. The
other reason food is wasted is that people will only spend a lot if they get a lot
but for the most part they get a lot but don?t eat a lot. on top of that probably
only about 40 percent of people take home their food the rest is wasted.
Everyone wasted food and don?t even realize it, all those pizza crusts
and half eaten bowls of soup really add up quickly every single time anyone
throws away any food they should take just one minute to think of a starving
child in a third world country that would kill for what someone else calls
their trash.