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Resource efficiency

Resource efficiency reflects the understanding that current, global, economic growth and development can not be sustained with the current production and consumption patterns. Globally, we are extracting more resources to produce goods than the planet can replenish. Resource efficiency is the reduction of the environmental impact from the production and consumption of these goods, from final raw material extraction to last use and disposal. This process of resource efficiency can address sustainability. copied from [Waste Management]

An example of such a source in which we are extracting to produce more goods and causes damage to the environment is the waste of fossil fuels. An example of such a fossil fuel is the waste of energy. 32% of energy wasted for grains, 25.3% energy wasted in vegetables, 23.4% wasted in fruit, 32% wasted in dairy, 16% wasted in meat, poultry, and fish, 31.4% wasted in eggs. This shows how much energy we are wasting by wasting grains, vegetables, fruit, dairy, meat, poultry, fish and eggs. Additionally, that is just the energy associated with growing those food commodities. There is also more energy associated in packaging and transporting those goods. At the end of the day, we are not using our resources efficiently by wasting food. The amount of energy that is wasted in food loss is also the amount of energy taken from other sources that perhaps need it and can make a better use from it. Ivleen Kaur (talk) 23:15, 9 March 2018 (UTC)https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es100310d Cuellar D. Amanda. “Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States.” Environmental Science and Technology 2010 44(16) pp 6464-6469