{"id":7,"date":"2018-11-02T21:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:41:43","slug":"food-waste-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/food-waste-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Waste, the environment + Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping climate change and protecting the environment are among the greatest challenges of our time, and food waste is a major contributor to both of these issues.<\/p>\n<p>How, you might ask?<\/p>\n<p>When food ends up in a landfill, it creates methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. In fact, if global food waste were measured as a country, it would be the world\u2019s third worst emitter of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t all. When food gets wasted, we\u2019re also wasting all of the land, water, energy and other resources that went into producing it, impacting biodiversity \u2013 the variety of life on earth \u2013 and polluting our environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"btn-success\"><a href=\"\/flwy\/wp-content\/themes\/flwy-theme\/documents\/chart-en.pdf\">Download this chart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1524 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chart-en-1-788x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chart-en-1-788x1024.png 788w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chart-en-1-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chart-en-1-768x998.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chart-en-1.png 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping climate change and protecting the environment are among the greatest challenges of our time, and food waste is a major contributor to both of these issues. How, you might ask? When food ends up in a landfill, it creates methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. In fact, if global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/flwy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}