Composting is good for everything and everyone, but food waste continues to be a major problem
In the United States, food waste amounts to a whopping 30 to 40 percent of the food supply. “This figure, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010,” the
“Doing something useful with our food waste is actually a solution for a whole bunch of problems at once, not least of which is climate change,” Twilley says. Exploring new solutions to food waste takes the hosts to some of “the most high-tech facilities in the country,” like Waste Management, where they’re developing a system to separate food from plastic .
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