April 22, 2021
Charging people by how much garbage they send to the landfill can reduce waste by up to 20%.
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Humans are wasteful.
Take Columbia, Missouri. It’s estimated each household produces 2,000 pounds of trash per year… which comes out to 35,000 tons annually for this college town and that s just residential curbside customers.
To lighten the load… Columbia started a pay-as-you-throw program in February, which encourages residents to throw away less through a price plan that varies per household. Before we made the changes we did last fall, there was no limit to what a customer could put on the curb, Steve Hunt, said. You could literally put your entire contents of your entire house on the curb.
Apps focusing on food rescue help to curb millions of pounds of waste
By: Tyler Adkisson, Newsy
and last updated 2021-04-22 10:29:51-04
Bill Campbell is one of approximately 25,000 volunteers that works with Food Rescue Hero, an organization that uses a smartphone app to coordinate deliveries of unused foods from restaurants and grocers to non-profits and community centers. I heard about, you know, hunger and food, waste and all that. But I really wasn t experiencing it, Campbell said.
Since 2016, Food Rescue Hero has redirected more than 48 million pounds of food to those in need. Campbell himself has completed 455 food rescues since joining as a volunteer in September 2019.