Join our efforts, become a Helping Ninjas and join our movement to educate, address and celebrate all areas of positive impact on our environment. We encourage our community members to post, videos, photos depicting how you or your business is helping the planet. Helping Ninjas is geared to educate youth on ways to help, and what better way for them to see is by example.
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Any effort or education on how to help our planet— including all species of life, land & aquatic animals and wildlife, soil, water, air— any news story, news feed, post or photo you may have seen – can be a shared learning tool for others, and help to inspire change! Example posts: a picture of how or a business is helping the environment. Such as photos of Eco-Friendly Straws, Eco-Friendly Utensils, To-Go Boxes, etc.
Any efforts to recycle, composting, reducing waste, conserving energy and/or supporting renewable energy. Promoting urban farming, such as buying local, or any sustainable environment efforts or goals.
Community Outreach and/or charitable acts of helping the community or planet. Any organizations and business efforts to help the environment –is worth sharing!
Join our efforts to fight hunger and food waste. Contact us to join our efforts to educate, inspire and make a difference.
47.4 million Americans experienced hunger. This means that they have difficulty accessing affordable, nutritious food.
Join our efforts today. To sign-up for the Helping Ninja fight hunger and food waste, submit the form below:
Defining Food Waste
Food waste is a huge problem and has a direct negative impact on the environment. Helping Ninjas invites you to do your part and spread awareness about this prominent and often overlooked issue.Raise your environmental awareness by learning about food waste and what you can do to curb it in your own home and in the community . Reducing food waste starts in the home, and you can make a difference by taking one small step at a time.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FOA) defines food waste as, “discarding of food that is safe and nutritious for human consumption along the entire food supply chain, from primary production to end household consumer level.”
U.S. Food Waste Statistics
According to the EPA, the U.S. discards some 37 million tons of food each year—a third of all the food it produces—yet just five percent of that is composted. All the rest is piled into landfills or incinerated. More food fills in these trash pits than any other material, says the EPA, constituting 21 percent of all of the country’s municipal solid waste.
Along with the wasted food goes all the water, energy, pesticides, fertilizer, labor and other inputs that go into growing, shipping, processing, marketing and preparing it. When landfilled, wasted food also generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
How are you addressing food waste and hunger in your community?
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By Skyler, Age 12, February 20125, Heping Ninja, Indiana
Today my brothers and I went to Second Helpings with our mom. We helped the chef by opening boxes and prepping for the meal that they will prepare in the morning.
The first thing we did when we got there was go the pantry and get the boxes. Then we helped the chef by pouring the continents of the pasta boxes into the food bins.
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