To start making global progress in combating climate change and rehabilitating the planet, we must answer a simple question: How can we prevent waste? We’re not headed for a future of resource abundance.
That’s especially true when it comes to food. However, composting requires open space and it can be hard work. In the ...
The problem
...U.S., wasted food is the single largest inhabitant of landfills. And most of that food comes from our kitchens.
Why it hits home for us
What if returning food to the farm was as easy as sending it to the landfill? And what if this meant we could get rid ...
...of the sludge at the bottom of our trash bins once and for all? That banana peel is still food, just not for humans.
Very thoughtful people are trying to address and solve aspects of this problem in different ways. There are new regulations like California’s statewide reduction effort to keep organic material out of landfill (SB1383).
We take the food you can’t eat at home, conserve the nutrients, and send it back to farms to feed chickens–saving the planet while saving you trips to the trash cans.
While approaches like these will help with the food waste problem, changing the system will take the efforts of many others. Everyone agrees we need waste prevention innovation.
If we can figure out wasted food, what about the other stuff? We spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year throwing ...
Cooking up a brighter future
...away things that still have value. What if we could prevent other things from becoming waste in the first place?