Clean Your Plate! Food Waste

Food waste might not top anyone's Top 10 List of Worst Environmental Offenders, yet the impact is huge! When we waste food, we also waste every resource that goes into producing that food.

Episode 4

4/25/2024

Food waste might not be at the top of anyone's "Top 10 List of Worst Environmental Offenders," yet the impact is huge and far-reaching. The United Nations revealed we waste so much food that it's 5 times the CO2 caused by the aviation industry! When we waste food, we also waste every resource that goes into producing that food. Listen to find out how to avoid food waste in pursuit of a more Sustainable Planet.

Key Topics

  • If food waste were a country, it would be the 3rd biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world

  • How and why food waste looks very different in developed countries than the rest of the world

  • Expiration dates are a lie; don't believe everything you read!

  • Eliminating consumer food waste is a fairly easy thing to tackle

  • Why ugly food deserves a place on our plates

Recommended Resources

'Ugly'= Unsellable at the Volta banana plantation in Ghana