Experts have put together a list of ways that people can change their consumption patterns in order to reduce their waste, reduce their impact on the environment and ultimately help themselves in ensuring that foods and water are not polluted.

Food waste varies from country to country, but studies have shown time and again that food waste is one of the biggest contributors to climate change because greenhouse gases are emitted.

Changes in the climate are diluting nutrients in grasses that maintain and feed ecosystems, according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Within the next half decade, some of the world’s largest ecosystems could go spiral and disappear.

New research found that ocean turtles are eating plastics that smell like food and dying from it. According to researchers, it only takes about a dozen pieces of plastic to kill one turtle.