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Opinion: New York City’s Food Waste is a Solvable Issue
Kevin Irving |
‘We know how to reduce food waste, we just need to find the will to do it.’
‘We know how to reduce food waste, we just need to find the will to do it.’
The program, which has been on hold since May 2020, kicks off again Monday in four Brooklyn neighborhoods as a budget report notes high costs to sustain it.
While composting food waste is better that simply burying it in landfills, both techniques have their costs, and both involve a fundamental failure: The food could have been eaten.
Their nighttime tours to find edible items among what restaurants and grocery stores have discarded fill their pantries—and raise the question of whether a larger solution to hunger lies in reducing food waste.