Impact on Environment
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Most people like to believe that organic materials do not harm the environment. But, that is not true. Organic material like food, are actually really harmful when they are decomposing and rotting. When food decomposes without oxygen it tends to release methane into the atmosphere. Methane is far more dangerous than carbon dioxide, for both the environment and humans. But most humans do not realize this. Harmful emissions from food waste are one of the biggest reasons for global warming and climate change. To put it on scale, if food waste was a country on earth, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. Just in the middle of the USA and India