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Avenues for food waste explored Avenues for food waste explored
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The U.S. is the global leader in food waste, discarding nearly 40 million tons of food every year according to the EPA.
That’s 8 billion pounds of food, more than $160 billion or roughly 220 pounds of food waste per person within the country.
While these numbers are staggering, inroads are being made within food waste recycling programs across the U.S. As Arnold Bowers, business solutions director at ENGIE Impact explained, there are several emerging technologies in the marketplace today that are impacting how we engage with and tackle food waste, and anaerobic digestion is one tactic that has proven to be successful in certain settings,