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Rogers: About half of all food waste originates in residential kitchens
“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.”
Rogers: Only about 5% of households have green bin access
“I think only about five percent of households have access to a green bin program, so they're actually pretty rare.”
Mill kitchen bin grinds and dries bones, dairy, and avocado pits
“So you could put all food in the bin, everything, including meat and dairy, chicken bones and fish bones, avocado pits, you know, things that are really hard to break down because we're going to grind it up and dry it out.”
Rogers: Aggregated American food scraps create nutritious chicken feed
“So we're kind of building kind of an average American diet blend to feed chickens, which actually ends up being quite nutritious.”
Rogers: Roughly one-third of all food grown globally is thrown out
“Well, at a top level, we throw out about a third of the food we grow.”
Food waste causes 10% of global emissions, ranking just behind the US
“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.”
Rogers: One-third of Earth's arable land feeds livestock
“Something like one-third of the arable land on Earth is just to create food for livestock.”
Empty returning USPS trucks provide cheap capacity for reverse logistics
“The mail carrier comes to your house every day anyway. They come back to your house every day, they drop off the mail, they drop off packages, and they go back mostly empty. You know, those trucks drive back to the depot every day, and those trucks are usually…”