1. Food Waste

2. How is food waste a sustainability issue? (WA Q1)
Waste resources
Land, water, ag inputs, energy to transport and retail, packaging
Carbon emissions
Landfill space
Can push up food prices
Deprives GS producers of income
Perfectly edible, but ‘flawed’
Lack infrastructure to move food

3. Combatting Food Waste Change gov’t policies Embrace ‘flawed’ produce
Standardize expiration dates
In EU- feed livestock food waste
Embrace ‘flawed’ produce
Improve, introduce technology
Collection programs for unused foods
Save Food, DC Central Kitchen, Disco Soup

4. Waste & You In what ways do you waste food?
Do you feel differently after the readings?
Have you worked somewhere that repurposes unused food or volunteered to transport it?

5. Recap Food waste is very costly Americans especially wasteful
Oversized restaurant portions, don’t eat leftovers
GS waste- poor infrastructure
Farm waste – ‘flawed’ foods