Wasting Food is Not Sustainable

Written by Claire Cummings on February 26, 2013in Education, Events, Featured, Food waste, Low Carbon Diet - 0 Comments

When my boss, Vice President of Strategy Maisie Greenawalt, asked me if I could present at the 2013 Sustainable Foods Summit on what Bon Appétit is doing to combat waste in the food system, I thought, “Oh boy, I need to do some research!”

Me (second from left) on the food waste panel at the 2013 Sustainable Foods Summit.

I am a lover of leftovers and live in Portland, OR, where the city makes it easy to compost, but I certainly wouldn’t think of myself as an expert on food waste. Until recently I thought a biodegradable to-go box was always compostable (turns out that’s not the case), and I’m definitely guilty of letting bunches of herbs and other produce wilt away in my veggie bin.

So I turned to the experts: Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, and Dana Gunders, author of a paper on food waste for the National Resource Defense Council.

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