food waste

“The best thing to do with food waste is actually to feed it to someone. And we can't always feed it to a person, but the next best thing would be to feed it to an animal. So you could avoid all of the emissions of having to grow more crops to feed those animal…”

“Well, at a top level, we throw out about a third of the food we grow.”

“But actually, but if you look at kind of where the food we throw out comes from, about half of that comes from our houses, from our kitchen tables.”

“And we're not talking about a garbage truck load of food waste. We're talking like about a shoe box per household per month. So it's really not a lot of stuff and it doesn't smell, it doesn't go bad. So it doesn't need to get there urgently.”

“Composting is really good for, like, things like yard waste or agricultural waste, things that are really bulky. Composting is really not great for food waste. Food waste is kind of gloopy. You know, that's a technical term. And large-scale composters actually…”

“It's one of the biggest climate problems in that food waste is like 10% of emissions. So like, if you ranked it by country, it'd be like China, United States, food waste, India.”

“And so I think you're probably two-ish percent penetration Of the 10 to 15 we talked about, ah, and really the wastewater treatment side and the food waste side is largely untapped, ah, right now”

“Food waste happens in a different stage of the supply chain in the United States compared to, say, a poorer country. So in the United States, we have a very robust cold chain, which is good news, but that means we're wasting the food on our plate. Like, we're …”

“Even if we Reduced our beef consumption 50% in rich countries, and reduced food waste 50% in the entire world, we would still need, you know, the numbers are so bad that we would still need to jack up our yields significantly to feed ten billion people by twen…”

“The average American wastes more than a thousand dollars a year on food that ends up going in the garbage.”