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You may notice just how much food waste we create     1     you often cook at home this year. Even if we are careful not to waste edible food, wastes like potato     2     (skin), banana peels, and apple cores pile up.

Food waste is a major problem     3    (global), We waste or lose about a third of all the food we grow. There are a lot of wasted resources: Wasting the land on which the food    4    (grow), the energy that is used to grow, transport, and process it, wasting water, wasting money and wasting work. On top of it all, landfilling food waste emits the potent greenhouse gas methane (甲烷),which leads    5    climate change.

But a coalition of the world's giant food companies strongly support     6    new initiative (倡议)that aims to tackle this problem. How? By preventing waste whenever we are possible. And by turning what can't    7     (prevent) into renewable energy.

Earlier this month, renewables company Vanguard Renewables made an     8     (announce) that it would join Starbucks, Unilever, and Dairy Farmers of America    9     (establish) the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA). It aims to turn unavoidable food waste into renewable energy by    10     (use) on-farm anaerobic digesters. It is high time that we should save food.

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