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The war on food waste is a waste of time
Reducing food waste might seem to be much easier than reforming complex production processes, and yet this proverbial low-hanging fruit has been difficult to harvest.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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The carbon footprint of US food waste is bigger than the airline industry’s (source), and more than a third of that food waste is produced in our homes. We are poor inventory managers when we do groceries in bulk: we ambitiously buy ingredients that we don’t cook, fruits start to mold by mid-week, forgotten purchases zombie in the freezer for a yea... See more
Stuti Pandey • The Modern Milk Man Sits in the Dark: Demanding More From On-Demand Delivery
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more than 20 percent of food is simply thrown away, allowed to rot, or otherwise wasted. In the United States, it’s 40 percent. That’s bad for people who don’t have enough to eat, bad for the economy, and bad for the climate. When wasted food rots, it produces enough methane to cause as much warming as 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year.
... See moreBill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
There are many reasons why we should not continue many of today’s food-producing practices. Agriculture’s major contribution to the generation of greenhouse gases is now the most-often cited justification for following a different path. But modern crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture have many other undesirable environmental impacts,
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
But politicians and environmentalists have other ideas. They’re doubling down on their mistakes by banning more plastic products and demanding alternatives that are more expensive, less convenient, and worse for the environment. Even experts familiar with the facts succumb to magical thinking. Yes, they acknowledge, we shouldn’t be exporting our pl... See more
John Tierney • The Perverse Panic over Plastic
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We need to start thinking about waste as a forward-looking problem, not a backward-looking one. That means realizing that spending another minute or another dollar or another bit of effort on something that is no longer worthwhile is the real waste.
Annie Duke • Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Food waste and loss cost the global economy more than $940 billion a year, according to a study by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Proponents of upcycling say the practice could help reduce the more than 70 billion tons of greenhouse gases generated by food loss and waste, while creating new jobs and innovative products.
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