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According to, "This Apple Could Have Been Saved," by Kristen Lewis, with reporting by Adee Braun, and "How To Reduce Your Food Waste," many different types of food in America are wasted every day, but there are ways to reduce the waste. Some people have been aware of how much food is being wasted each day, but this situation is growing out of control and needs to be put to an end. The first way that food gets wasted, is that many American's are just lazy and buy too much food that we aren't even going to eat all of so it is just wasted. While the article was explaining this topic further, it stated that, "Even a lot of the food we do by ends up in the trash. At school, you might toss your half-eaten bag of pretzels because that's easier than

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