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Food waste: Expiration Date Tracker
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<h1 style="font-family:verdana;"> The Expiration Date </h1>
<p>By Arthi and Nathan</p>
<img src="http://xfittrainingeastbay.com/wp-content/uploads/Expiration-Date-1.png">
<p style="font-family:courier;"> There are many enviornmental issues that this planet faces on a growing, daily basis. Yet, food waste might be the most severe one out of all them.
<p style="font-family:courier;"> Food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane – a more powerful greenhouse gas than even CO2. ... With agriculture accounting for 70 percent of the water used throughout the world, food waste also represents a great waste of freshwater and ground water resources.</p>
<p style="font-family:courier;"> More than 50 percent of the waste occurs during “upstream” or the production, yield handling and storage phase and the remaining happens during processing, distribution and consumption stages or the “downstream” phase.</p>
<p style="font-family:courier;"> But wait, there's more.
<p style="font-family:courier;"> Believe or not, expiration dates are one of the major contributions to food waste
<p style="font-family:courier;"> U.S. consumers and businesses needlessly trash billions of pounds of food every year as a result of America’s dizzying array of food expiration date labeling practices, which need to be standardized and clarified, according to a new report co-authored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. One key finding from an industry-conducted survey: More than 90 percent of Americans may be prematurely tossing food because they misinterpret food labels as indicators of food safety.
<p style="font-family:courier;"> People need to be aware of how they are handling their food. If stored and consumed correctly, so much food could've been saved from the dump
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<p style="font-family:courier;">Table of common foods and the average amount of days until expiration!</p>
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<th>Food</th>
<th>Average days until expired</th>
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<td>Milk</td>
<td>15</td>
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<td>Banana</td>
<td>5 to 7</td>
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<td>Cooked Fish</td>
<td>3 to 4</td>
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<td>Bacon</td>
<td>7</td>
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<td>Yogurt</td>
<td>10</td>
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<td>Apple</td>
<td>14</td>
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