Around the world, a broad array of efforts are being launched to tackle two pressing global problems: hunger and climate change.
California now requires supermarkets to give away — not throw away — food that is unsold but fine to eat. In Seoul, South Korea, garbage cans automatically weigh how much food gets tossed in the trash. In London, grocers have stopped putting date labels on fruits and vegetables to reduce confusion about what is still edible.Food waste, when it rots in a landfill, produces methane gas, which quickly heats up the planet. But it’s a surprisingly tough problem to solve.
“So much. So much goes to waste,” whispered Vang, who works with a local charity, Fresno Metro Ministry, to give food to people in need. In Asia, Europe and the United States, several new mobile apps offer discounts on restaurant food that’s about to be thrown out. Last year, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, began a “clean plate” campaign, calling for an end to the “shocking and distressing” squandering of food, even cracking down on video bloggers who eat excessive amounts of food on camera.
Overall, one-third of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. “It is a huge deal,” Rachel Machi Wagoner, the director of CalRecycle, said in an interview. “We are trying to turn waste into a resource.”
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