A food web explains why there are more producers than consumers. It is because more energy is available to producers.
The food web is a structural representation of the feeding relationship that exists among the living organisms in a particular environment.
A typical food web groups living organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers. Producers are those that fix sunlight energy into chemical energy, a process known as photosynthesis while consumers are those that either feed on producers or other living organisms in the environment. The decomposers return both producers and consumers back to the earth and help nutrients circulate in the environment.
<em>In a typical food web, producers are usually more than consumers because more energy is usually available at this level. Less and less energy becomes available as we move up the ladder in each food chain that makes up the food web.</em>
When thrown into landfill, food waste produces a large amount of methane. As food rots and degrades, it emits these harmful gases which are 25 times more harmful than carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere.
