Turning Trash Into Treasure
To solve the problem of food waste, start thinking differently about the challenges it presents.
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Worldwide, almost a billion people go hungry every day, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Yet, the organization asserts, the underlying problem is not that we don’t produce enough food. It’s that of all the food we do produce, up to one-third is spoiled or discarded before it’s consumed. This represents a tremendous waste of the time, water, energy, and land that went into producing it (FAO 2015a).
The FAO also says that if we could recover even one-…
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