We’ve all heard rumblings of the American food waste debate and taken them to heart, but a recent report published by the Guardian News, “Of Feast and Famine”, sheds light on a new level of responsibility Americans must meet to combat more than one billion people worldwide going hungry due to waste.
The work of Campus Kitchens – led by DC Central Kitchen, which is mentioned in the article – sets an example for the individual responsibility the author is asking Americans to accept. And one of The Campus Kitchens Project’s major contributors and partners, Walmart, is featured as ahead of other businesses and restaurants in reducing food waste and becoming more sustainable. (Walmart’s head of solid waste and recycling recently participated in an EPA roundtable.)
Slate.com published two reports on the most recent number – a jaw-dropping 40 percent of American food goes to waste each year through the process – and compelled readers to send in their own advice of food waste fixes, many of which Campus Kitchens already put to use.
Some other painful figures revealed in the Guardian’s Sadhbh Walshe’s article:
• In the past decade, our rate of food waste has more than doubled
• 2 percent of American food waste is composted
• Food waste is the second-largest waste stream sent to landfills
The good news: organizations like your Campus Kitchen, DC Central Kitchen, Walmart, and people like Jonathon Bloom who authored an upcoming book about food waste in America are serving as mentors – and leading by example – to scale the rumblings of hunger and waste back to a murmur.
That’s got to feel pretty satisfying.
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