EPA Warning: 'Holiday Leftovers Contribute to Climate Change'

[Spike]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a video on its website to tell Americans that they should think about how much food they waste during the holiday season if they want to help save the planet.

The video is part of the EPA's "Fight Food Waste" campaign

"Most people don't realize how much food they throw away every day — from uneaten leftovers to spoiled produce. More than 96% of the food we throw away ends up in landfills.. Once in landfills, food breaks down to produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas which contributes to climate change. So, this holiday season, take steps to cut down your food waste.

http://www.epa.gov/communityhealth/epa-public-engagement-highlights-week-november-23-2015#Headline 1

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I can't wait till Trump or Cruz kicks these assclowns out of their offices.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Assuming that by 'climate change' they mean warming, then it can be easily offset by burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees - http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/62...k-Burning-fossil-fuels-COOLs-planet-says-NASA .

BURNING fossil fuels and cutting down trees causes global COOLING, a shock new NASA study has found.

Major theories about what causes temperatures to rise have been thrown into doubt after NASA found the Earth has cooled in areas of heavy industrialisation where more trees have been lost and more fossil fuel burning takes place.

 

[Yinzerlyn]

Well I don't contribute to climate change over the holidays. I don't cook. Problem solved.

 

[Hypocycloids]

Whale poop combats climate change. Why not feed the whales our leftovers?

http://www.weather.com/science/envi...combat-climate-change-global-warming-20140708

 

[Troglodyte]

I've been eating the leftovers of a 4.5 lb. Prime Rib roast since X-mas Eve. I'm doing wonders for the environment at the cost of my cholesterol.

 

[Rod Farva]

From the same link

Three years ago, EPA issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), which requires power plants to reduce their emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollutants, protecting Americans from a host of avoidable illnesses and premature death.

After MATS was issued, the Supreme Court upheld the standards in the face of a host of challenges – but also ruled that the EPA should have considered costs when determining whether to regulate toxic air emissions from the power sector. Now, EPA is proposing a notice that supplements MATS. Specifically, EPA proposes to find that including a consideration of cost does not change the agency’s determination that it is appropriate to regulate air toxics, including mercury, from power plants.

They "propose to find" that they, an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy are so powerful, so authoritative, so perfectly supreme that regardless of costs to industries they WILL issue the same standards again.

 

[hamster]

These gov't agencies will spew anything, to try to justify their existence.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Of course.

 

[Djfan]

Some of our food gave me gas. That's the greenhouse action I claim. Nothing more.